Timeline of cross-Straits relationship

In April 2005, Lien Chan, the then-chairman of the Kuomintang, led a delegation to visit the mainland. This was the first time that the top leaders of the Communist Party of China and the KMT had a dialogue in the past six decades.

In May 2005, James Soong, chairman of the People First Party in Taiwan, visited the mainland.

In June 2008, the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation restarted talks in Beijing after a nine-year suspension.