Ties with Taiwan boon to Fujian

BEIJING - Peaceful and stable cross-Straits ties will enable Fujian province to speed up its development, a senior official from the province said.

The province, which sits opposite to Taiwan across the Straits, sees the current thawing of cross-Straits relations as a great opportunity for improving its once-backward industrial sector, Zhou Lianqing, deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) and director of the economic and trade commission in Fujian said during the current NPC session that will conclude on Monday.

The draft 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), which is the country's development blueprint for the next five years and was submitted for discussion at the NPC session, contains the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement that was signed with Taiwan in 2010.