Minister of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhang Zhijun, will visit the outlying Taiwanese island of Kinmen on February 7-8. That’s the word from the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan’s top China policy-making body, on Wednesday.
Zhang is scheduled to meet his Taiwanese counterpart, Mainland Affairs Council Minister Wang Yu-Chi. This will be their third formal meeting in the past year. Their first meeting, held last year, was the first time government ministers from Taiwan and the People's Republic of China had ever held talks in their official capacities.
During their upcoming meeting in Kinmen, Wang is expected to bring up issues related to illegal fishing by Chinese fishermen, seaborne garbage originating in China and illegal sea-sand quarrying in Taiwanese waters.
They will also talk about flight transit services for Chinese nationals in Taiwanese airports, joint research on cross-strait and regional economic integration, and the opening of offices for the two intermediary institutes tasked with handling cross-strait interactions.