(Xinhua | 05-26-2008 18:45)NANJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung arrived in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, on Monday afternoon, starting the first leg of a six-day
mainland visit.
He was received by Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, with a hug at the airport, while many businessmen from Taiwan waited with a
slogan to welcome the visiting team.
At Wu's suggestion, people spent one minute lowering their heads to mourn for the deceased in the May 12 Wenchuan
earthquake.
Invited by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and General Secretary Hu Jintao, Wu will visit the three
mainland cities of Nanjing, Beijing and Shanghai.
The KMT chairman would express condolences to victims of the devastating
earthquake in Sichuan Province on
behalf of his party and the people of Taiwan, and put forward opinions on promoting mutually
beneficial cooperation across the Taiwan Straits.
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