(XINHUA)

Chen Deming, President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), made his first visit to Taiwan since assuming his post in April by leading a business delegation that arrived in Taiwan on November 26.

At the invitation of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), the delegation visited a selection of the island's companies, industrial parks and free economic pilot zones.

Before his departure for Taiwan, Chen, the former Minister of Commerce, expressed to the media his hope that the visit would promote exchanges between the ARATS and the SEF, and help them play a bigger role in advancing cross-Straits communication.