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July 4th, 2008
Posted: 01:27 AM ET
BEIJING, China (CNN) — The first regular charter flights between China’s mainland and Taiwan began Friday in a sign of warming relations between Beijing and Taipei. The flight took off at 6:31 a.m. from Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province in southern China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, and it arrived in Taiwan at 8:10 am. after a 1,124-km (700-mile) journey. Previously, the only chartered flights across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait took place during major holidays. They will now run Friday through Monday. About 760 mainland Chinese plan to make the trip this weekend, but that number is expected to increase to 3,000 by mid-July. |
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