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Taiwan's "Executive Yuan" yesterday approved changes to rules on relations with the mainland that would allow more organizations to conduct exchanges with the mainland and grant more freedom to move across the Taiwan Straits.
The draft revisions, which still await approval by the "Legislative Yuan" in November, may help to build a new order between the two sides in various aspects such as cultural and business exchanges, according to Yu Shyi-kun, Taiwan's "cabinet premier."
The revisions propose 56 legal amendments.
The draft regulation proposes easing restrictions on the movement of people, trade and cultural communications, air traffic and navigation across the Straits, and allowing government-funded civic organizations to enter talks with the mainland.
Curbs on mainland entrepreneurs visiting or living in Taiwan would be eased, while Taiwan residents other than civil servants would no longer need to get the Taiwan authorities' approval to visit the mainland.
(China Daily September 25, 2002)
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