Premier Wen Calls for Mainland-Taiwan Co-op Amid Financial Crisis

    China would actively promote financial cooperation across the Taiwan Straits, and support the development of Taiwan-funded enterprises on the mainland, according to a report by Premier Wen Jiabao on the work of the government scheduled to be delivered at the Second Session of the 11th National People's Congress.

    The report pledges to strengthen industrial and agricultural cooperation between the two sides, support economic development on the west coast of the Straits, including Fujian and other provinces, where Taiwan investment is concentrated.

    "We will accelerate normalization of cross-Straits economic relations and facilitate the signing of a comprehensive agreement on economic cooperation, and gradually establish economic cooperation mechanisms tailored to both sides of the Straits," the report reads.