Chen Deming, President of the Chinese mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and Lin Join-sane, Chairman of Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), signed two cross-Straits cooperation agreements on meteorological and earthquake monitoring in Taipei on February 27.

The two sides also discussed preventing double taxation, speeding up consultations on an agreement on trade in goods, setting up a mechanism for resolving trade disputes, as well as establishing cross-Straits offices by both organizations.

Heads of the ARATS and the SEF have held 10 rounds of direct talks since 2008 and signed 21 agreements on cross-Straits cooperation.