China´s political advisors call for "cross-strait economic zone"

According to the proposal, the economic zone would fuel the economic development in Taiwan and the mainland's coastal regions, and become another engine of economic growth, just as other major economic zones in China such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Zhujiang River Delta, the Beibu Bay and the Bohai Rim Economic Zones.

The RCCK proposed that the "cross-strait economic zone" should enter the national economic development plan as a major strategy.

It proposed both two sides on the Taiwan Straits to promote economic cooperation and division of labor through dialogues, and to set up inter-city links between Wenzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and Shantou on the mainland, with Taiwan's Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Tainan, in the pursuit of mutual benefits and development.

The RCCK also called for stepped-up support to the economic zone on the western side of the Taiwan Straits, which included the coastal cities of Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Fuzhou on the mainland, by offering more favorable policies and funding, and speeding up traffic infrastructure construction.

According to the Ministry of Commerce, the trade volume between the mainland and Taiwan in the first 11 months of 2008 reached 122billion U.S. dollars, an 8.4 percent rise year-on-year.

Editor:Liu Anqi