Officials from Shanghai will visit Taipei for the first time in six years to take part in a forum meant to encourage cross-strait communication.
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Shanghai vice-mayor Hua Yuan will head a mainland delegation taking part in the two-day Shanghai-Taipei City Forum, Taipei city government spokesman Yin Wei said on Wednesday morning.
Taipei mayor Chiang Wan-an, of Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang party, will lead the island’s delegation.
The event will take place on December 17 but the Shanghai group’s stop on the island will be shorter than usual at less than two days, according to Yin.
During the forum, the two cities were expected to sign memorandums of cooperation on intelligent healthcare and red panda conservation, Yin added.
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Mainland state news agency Xinhua said the event would include “experience sharing and interaction between the two cities in areas such as friendly transport, river management and humanistic cities”.