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Shanghai-Taipei direct flight proposed
By Jiao Xiaoyang (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-09-16 05:57
SHANGHAI: Taiwan-based People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong proposed
at a forum yesterday the initiation of direct flights between Shanghai and
Taipei as a first step to promoting all-round direct flights between Taiwan and
the mainland.
Jia Qinglin,
chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC, shakes hands with James
Soong, chairman of Taiwan's People First Party, yesterday in Shanghai.
[newsphoto] | Soong said the Shanghai-Taipei route is long called for, given the proximity
of the two cities and the fact that the Shanghai region is the destination of
more than 500,000 Taiwanese investors.
"We think a pilot Shanghai-Taipei direct flight link can be taken to promote
direct flights across the Straits," Soong said at the opening of the
Cross-Straits Non-governmental Forum of Elites. This practice can gradually be
applied to other major coastal cities such as Shenzhen, he added.
Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) who also addressed the forum opening
yesterday, responded to Soong's proposal positively.
He said the mainland would take "flexible, pragmatic and effective" measures
to facilitate private negotiations on cross-Straits passenger and cargo charter
flights.
"The key to a breakthrough in the issue is to realize
direct passenger and cargo charter flights across the Straits," said Jia.
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