Mainland, Taiwan top negotiators hold talks in Nanjing

Chen Yunlin (R), president of the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), shakes hands with Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), before their talks in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, on April 26, 2009. This was the third round of talks between them in less than a year.(Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

If the agreement on financial cooperation was signed, it would set a foundation for market entering threshold of the financial sector, Chiang said.

Regular flights would ease the current shortage of cross-straits flights by increasing the number of both flights and terminals, he said, indicating that the tickets might be cheaper.

"I believe that with the efforts of both sides, the talks will achieve satisfactory results," said Chen.

Chen and Chiang started their talks at around 9 a.m. in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.

This was the third round of talks between them in less than a year.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei