BEIJING, April 12, 2026 — In a significant step to deepen cross-Strait engagement, China’s top Taiwan affairs authority has introduced a comprehensive 10-policy package aimed at expanding exchanges and cooperation between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. The initiative was formally announced on Sunday by the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, coinciding with the final day of a high-profile visit to the mainland by a Kuomintang (KMT) delegation led by KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun. Cheng and her delegation had been in the mainland for official engagements from April 8 to April 12, holding a series of constructive meetings with mainland officials and party representatives. According to the official announcement, the overarching goals of the new policy package are twofold: to advance the steady peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Strait, and to strengthen the shared kinship between compatriots on both sides while improving public well-being for all people living across the two sides of the strait. The policy rollout comes at a time of growing people-to-people exchanges between the mainland and Taiwan, with cross-Strait cooperation expanding across economic, cultural, educational and social sectors in recent years. The introduction of the targeted 10-measure framework signals the mainland’s continued commitment to promoting mutually beneficial collaboration and deepening connections that benefit residents on both sides, reinforcing the foundation for long-term peaceful cross-Strait relations.