Taiwan’s KMT chair Cheng Li-wun to honour Sun Yat-sen on landmark mainland China trip
Arriving in Shanghai on April 7 for six-day trip, Cheng will travel to Nanjing by train to pay respects at Sun Yat-sen’s mausoleum, KMT says
According to a KMT press statement issued on Tuesday night, she will pay tribute at the mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China – Taiwan’s formal name – and a symbol of the shared past between Taiwan and the mainland.
Cheng will arrive in Shanghai on April 7 and then travel by train to Nanjing, in eastern Jiangsu province, the itinerary shows. She will visit the mausoleum park the following morning and take the train back to Shanghai in the afternoon.
Her itinerary for the remaining four days remains undisclosed, although she is expected to visit Beijing and meet Xi.
At a KMT meeting on Wednesday, Cheng said the party had “an inescapable historical mission, to prove that at critical moments, the two sides of the [Taiwan] Strait can absolutely engage in peaceful dialogue and exchanges, thereby laying the foundation for creating peaceful and stable cross-strait relations, achieving regional stability, and promoting global peace”.