The third Straits Forum, an annual meeting between the mainland and Taiwan, concluded with positive messages: As the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported to the travel restrictions for certain mainland Chinese who want to visit Taiwan be relaxed.Shao Qiwei , director of China's Ministry of Tourism, announced in his speech at the Straits forum that certain cities may also provide new individual travel to Taiwan.Benefit from this arrangement, the great and rich cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen, whose residents can now travel to Taiwan alone. For this it is the residents of Fujian Province also allows to visit some Taiwanese islands near their province on their own. These provisions will take effect from the 28th Of June.
Group tours, which must be booked through a travel agency, are for mainland Chinese at all permitted only since July 2008. In addition to married couples, of which one spouse is non-Chinese nationality, still book a group trip and can not travel to the island alone. Even if these restrictions apply, travel to Taiwan have become extremely popular. Now tentatively for some cities, the regulations were relaxed to accommodate this trend. According to Shao Qiwei will allow the exchange and communication between the island and the mainland can be improved.
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