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

Source: Xinhua | 03-03-2009 08:05

BEIJING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese political advisors have called for accelerated efforts to build a "cross-strait economic zone" covering Taiwan and the mainland's coastal provinces, which they said would become a new engine of growth for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.

Sources at the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomingtang (RCCK) said the proposal would be submitted to the Second Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which is due to open here Tuesday afternoon.

The proposed economic zone would cover the southern part of Zhejiang Province, eastern Guangdong, central and eastern Jiangxi, and the entire Fujian Province and Taiwan.

Such an economic zone was in line with the trend of economic globalization and regional integration, and was made possible by the warming ties across the Taiwan Straits, according to the RCCK sources. RCCK is one of the eight non-Communist parties in China.