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Taiwanese Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman, Chiang Pin-kung and Chinese delegate Chen Yun Lin walking in to room, waving to media  2. Wide of delegates lining up for photo opportunity 3. Mid of signing ceremony, pan from Chiang to...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Taiwanese Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman, Chiang Pin-kung and Chinese delegate Chen Yun Lin walking in to room, waving to media  \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of delegates lining up for photo opportunity \u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of signing ceremony, pan from Chiang to Chen signing \u003cbr/\u003e4. Cutaway of delegates \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close-up of Chiang signing, tilt up to face \u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of delegates \u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of camera screen showing Chiang  \u003cbr/\u003e8. Zoom out of leaders shaking hands  \u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway of media\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of delegates raising toast\u003cbr/\u003e11. Chen and Chiang toasting  \u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of Chiang and Chen waving, zoom in of both\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of cameras filming\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of briefing \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Sun Yafu, Vice Director of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS):\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have reached an agreement on the issue of mainland citizens travelling and touring in Taiwan. On July 18, we will officially begin full implementation for Chinese tourists travelling to Taiwan. On July 4, charter flights will begin to operate over the weekends with travel service between the two sides of the strait for tour groups.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Sun Yafu, Vice Director of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS):\u003cbr/\u003e\"So, at the current level of development in our relationship, as things stand - the events that both sides have arranged - including this meeting, have been working with (long pause) have been working with proper words that we can agree on and feel comfortable with.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of briefing\u003cbr/\u003e20. Cutaway of cameras filming\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Chiang Pin-kung, Taiwanese Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's very significant. In the past 15 years, many people contributed to cross-strait relations. In the past, cross-strait relations showed political confrontation; however, mutual economic dependence has been growing at the same time. How to handle the balance between the two aspects is important. We are very thankful to Mr. Ko and Mr. Wang, They were rational enough to look for a way of 'Putting off disputes, Exchanging practically' even back in the year 1992.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Cutaway to press\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Chiang Pin-kung, Taiwanese Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Something that everyone cares about: the establishment of agencies or offices. Yesterday what we explained to Chairman Chen after he brought it up is the fact that the establishment of agencies involves a lot of different issues. So we'll have to bring it back to report to the Mainland Affairs Council.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of press\u003cbr/\u003e25. Rack focus of journalists listening\u003cbr/\u003eChina and Taiwan signed a formal agreement on Friday to expand charter flights and tourism, a step towards restoring transport links severed 59 years ago.\u003cbr/\u003eThe expansion of charter flights was a key subject on the agenda for the talks that began the previous day between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and its mainland counterpart, the first formal negotiations between the sides since 1999.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new agreements will go into effect in July.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have reached an agreement on the issue of mainland citizens travelling and touring in Taiwan,\" said Sun Yafu, Vice Director of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS). \u003cbr/\u003e\"On July 18, we will officially begin full implementation for Chinese tourists travelling to Taiwan. On July 4, charter flights will begin to operate over the weekends with travel service between the two sides of the Strait for tour groups,\" Sun added.\u003cbr/\u003eThe expansion of tourism will help build confidence between the rivals, which divided amid civil war in 1949 and whose relationship has veered from strained to outright hostile.\u003cbr/\u003eCharter flights are currently limited to four annual Chinese holidays and are usually packed with Taiwanese residents on the mainland returning home to visit family.\u003cbr/\u003eTaiwan's 19-member negotiating team is being led by Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation, and includes two vice Cabinet ministers - the highest-ranking Taiwanese officials ever to participate in bilateral talks.\u003cbr/\u003eChiang signed the deal with the Chinese government's delegate Chen Yun Lin. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's very significant. In the past 15 years, many people contributed to cross-strait relations. In the past, cross-strait relations showed political confrontation; however, mutual economic dependence has been growing at the same time,\" Chiang told reporters after the signing. \u003cbr/\u003eThe pact, signed in Beijing during their first formal talks since 1999, comes one day after Taiwan's representatives said they had reached a consensus with their Chinese counterparts on exchanging permanent representative offices.\u003cbr/\u003eSuch missions would mark a huge step forward in establishing contacts and mutual trust, although Taiwan's chief negotiator, Chiang Ping-kun, emphasised that officials in Taipei still needed to approve the measure.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yesterday what we explained to Chairman Chen after he brought it up is the fact that the establishment of agencies involves a lot of different issues. So we'll have to bring it back to report to Mainland Affairs Council,\" Chiang said.\u003cbr/\u003eNewly elected Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou wants to gradually expand the charter schedule and supplement it with regularly scheduled flights by the summer of 2009. \u003cbr/\u003eHis target is to have one (m) million Chinese tourists go to Taiwan every year, well above the current level of 80-thousand.\u003cbr/\u003eThe agreement, signed at a state guesthouse in western Beijing on Friday, will allow for 36 charter flights to cross the 100-mile-wide (160-kilometre-wide) Taiwan Strait running from Friday to Monday beginning on July 4. \u003cbr/\u003eFlights will be shared equally between Chinese and Taiwanese airlines, servicing routes between the Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Nanjing and Taiwan's capital, Taipei, and seven other cities on the island. \u003cbr/\u003eFlights would be open to anyone carrying valid documents, a change from the past when they were limited to just Taiwanese and Chinese.\u003cbr/\u003eA separate tourism agreement permits up to 3-thousand Chinese tourists to visit Taiwan each day for stays of up to 10 days, according to the Straits Exchange Foundation, Taiwan's quasi-official negotiating body of which Chiang is head.\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing's communist administration considers Taiwan part of its territory and refuses to recognise the government in Taipei, which means that negotiations must be carried out by semi-official bodies.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Thursday the two sides agreed to set up permanent offices in each other's territory for the first time, one of the biggest steps the political rivals have taken to build mutual trust.\u003cbr/\u003eThere were few details and no time frame given for establishing the offices, which could perform consular functions such as issuing travel documentation.\u003cbr/\u003eThe agreements mark a victory of pragmatism over politics, with the parties setting aside their ideological differences to strengthen booming trade and investment ties.\u003cbr/\u003eIn other areas, the sides remain far apart. 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