In order to promote cultural exchanges and cooperation, the 2015 Jinqiao Cross-Straits folk art festival will take place from October 16 to October 20 in Xiamen.
Construction of a water pipeline connecting the coastal mainland province of Fujian with Kinmen, a Taiwan islet, started on Monday when excavators began operations at Longhu Reservoir on the Jinjiang River, the source for the water-diversion project.
Cross-Straits relations are expected to deepen as the mainland's Taiwan affairs chief, Zhang Zhijun, prepares to meet Andrew Hsia, his counterpart from Taiwan, in Guangdong province from Oct 13 to 15.
Fuzhou, capital of Southeast China's Fujian province, aims to develop its Fuzhou New District as an important supporting region for cross-Straits exchanges and cooperation by the year 2020.
