Profits and risks concerned in cross-Strait investment: ARATS President

A cross-Straits investment seminar was held on Wednesday in Taiwan. It was part of the fourth round of cross-straits trade talks between mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits - and the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation.

The seminar aimed to encourage more mainland businesses to invest in Taiwan.

ARATS President, Chen Yunlin, and SEF Chairman, Chiang Pin-Kung, participated in the seminar and pledged their support for the scheme.

The island has been open for mainland investment for six months. Mainland investors have funded 22 projects in Taiwan worth more than a billion New Taiwan Dollars. But Chiang says more can be done.

Chen Yunlin, president of the Chinese mainland's Association for Relations  Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), speaks on a symposium on the investment  of Chinese mainland to Taiwan, in Taichung of southeast China's Taiwan,  Dec. 23, 2009. (Xinhua/Yuan Man)