Project to boost cross-Straits economic links

Kunshan plans to offer preferential policies to help facilitate trade, financing for Taiwan firms

The State Council, China's cabinet, has approved a pilot program for Kunshan city in the eastern province of Jiangsu in a major effort to strengthen economic cooperation across the Taiwan Straits.

An official with the Taiwan affairs office in Kunshan, who declined to be named, told China Daily on Tuesday the program will be the first of its kind across the Straits.