P.K. Chiang, vice chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT), said in Taipei Sunday that he will lead a 34-member KMT delegation to visit the Chinese mainland for the purposes of recalling the past and doing business.
At a press conference in Taipei, the capital of China’s Taiwan Province, Chiang said he has visited the mainland twice in the past, but that the imminent trip is more crucial because the delegation will visit the tombs of "KMT martyrs" in Nanjing and Guangzhou and the cenotaph of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the KMT and pioneer of Chinese Democratic Revolution
The year 2005 is the 80th anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the 94th anniversary of the Huanghuagang Uprising in Guangzhou, Chiang said.
The five decades division across the Taiwan Straits is ascribed to the outcome of the civil war between the KMT and the Communist Party of China (CPC) in late 1940s, Chiang acknowledged.
Meanwhile, Lien called for using wisdom and resorting to still greater efforts to help the people of Taiwan to face up and resolve the true fundamental problems in Taiwan.