Xi says no wavering in reunification  

习近平总书记会见台湾和平统一团体联合参访团

中共中央总书记习近平26日上午在人民大会堂会见台湾和平统一团体联合参访团。习近平首先高度肯定参访团各位成员为推动两岸关系发展、推进国家和平统一进程作出的积极贡献。他指出，当前两岸关系虽然面临一些新情况新问题，但和平发展的大趋势没有改变。两岸同胞应该坚定信心、携手努力，继续推动两岸关系和平发展，共同开创中华民族伟大复兴的光明前景。[查看全文]

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said on Friday that China took "a firm and unwavering stance" on national reunification.

At the Great Hall of the People, Xi told a visiting Taiwanese delegation composed of pro-reunification groups that cross-Strait peaceful development would not change despite new problems facing the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.

He called on both sides to strengthen confidence and work for the nation's rejuvenation.

The delegation led by New Alliance Association chairman Hsu Li-nung and New Party Chairman Yok Mu-ming started a six-day visit to the mainland on Wednesday with plans to visit Beijing and Nanjing, at the invitation of the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee.

The delegates include representatives from more than 20 groups, including the New Party, New Alliance Association, the Alliance for the Reunification of China, the Labor Party of Taiwan and the China Tide Association.

In Beijing, they will visit the Museum of the War of the Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and an exhibition in Beijing's Zhongguancun, known as "China's Silicon Valley" .

In Nanjing, the delegation will visit the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.