Cross-Strait agreements to monitor earthquakes
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China’s mainland and Taiwan signed agreements on meteorology and earthquake monitoring yesterday.
The agreements brought the number of pacts between the mainland and Taiwan to 21 since 2008.
“The agreements signed have effectively promoted economic, social and well-being cooperation between the two sides, following the trends and meeting the aspirations of the people,” Chen Deming, president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, said in Taipei.
Under the deals, the mainland and Taiwan, which are both prone to natural disasters, will share seismic data in a bid to better safeguard against devastating quakes.
More than 80,000 people died in Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province in 2008 when a 7.9-magnitude tremor struck. In 1999, a 7.6-magnitude quake claimed around 2,400 lives in Taiwan.
The 21 agreements cover issues like transport, medicine and health, nuclear power safety, investment protection and customs cooperation.
But despite improving ties Taipei officials say they are not prepared to open some flight routes directly across the Taiwan Straits.
There are no direct flights between the mainland’s Fujian Province and Taiwan.
Earlier this month the two sides held their first government-to-government talks since they split 65 years ago after a civil war.
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