Hu Jintao (R), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, shakes hands with Lien Chan, Chairman of the Kuomintang, at the Great Hall of People in Beijing on April 29, 2005. It was the first handshake between supreme leaders of the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang in 60 years. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]

Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) President Chen Yunlin (front row, L) shakes hands with the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Chiang Pin-kung (front row, R) after signing four agreements on direct shipping, direct flights, postal service and food safety in Taipei of southeast China's Taiwan Province shortly after 14:00 on November 4, 2008. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press] 

The seventh Cross-Straits Economic, Trade and Culture Forum opens in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan province in the morning of May 7, 2011. Jia Qinglin, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and Wu Poh-Hsiung, honorary chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT), attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. Wang Yi, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Lin Fong-cheng, vice-chairman of the KMT, co-presided the opening ceremony. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]