Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party Vice
Chairman Chiang Pin-kun and his wife Chen Mei-hui waves before leaving
Beijing airport for Taiwan Friday, April 1, 2005. Chiang left for home
after a five-day visit to the Chinese mainland - the first of its
kind since his party fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war.
[Reuters] Jia Qinglin (right), Standing Committee member
of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, meets Chiang
Pin-kun, Kuomintang vice-chairman and leader of the 34-member delegation
from Taiwan, March 31 at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Jia, also
chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
National Committee, is the highest Beijing official to meet Chiang in the
KMT's first official mainland visit in 56 years. [China Daily]
