Chinese mainland to organize three buying teams to Taiwan by July

BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland was
scheduled to organize three buying teams to visit Taiwan for business talks and
purchase of products and materials, Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of
Commerce (MOC), said Wednesday.

The MOC, the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office and
the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology were endeavoring to organize
three economic and trade facilitation teams to visit Taiwan at the end of May,
in mid-June and early July to deepen the mainland-Taiwan economic and trade
ties, Yao said in a Web site statement.

Yao did not specify how many mainland businesses
would visit Taiwan and how much they planned to spend, but he said they would
mainly focus on purchasing folk handicraft, processed food, daily necessities,
machinery equipment and raw materials.

Li Shuilin, head of the Association of Economy and
Trade Across the Taiwan Straits, a non-governmental mainland institution, would
head the first team to visit Taiwan, with business people from home appliance,
light industry and food processing firms in the delegation. The delegation would
also carry out business talks in Taiwan, according to the statement.

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