Cross-strait meeting hosted in Taiwan

Senior officials from the mainland and Taiwan will hold talks on Monday in Taichung on the Taiwan island.

It will be the fourth meeting this year between leaders from the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation. Both sides will sign four new commercial accords.

Chen Yunlin (front, L), president of the Chinese mainland's Association  for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and his wife wave to  people before leaving for Taiwan, at Beijing airport, China, Dec. 21,  2009. A delegation of ARATS led by Chen Yunlin left Beijing Monday  morning for Taiwan for a new round of talks.(Xinhua/Wang Yongji)