-- The fourth Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum opened in Shanghai in December 2008, during which the Chinese mainland announced 10 measures of economic cooperation with Taiwan to jointly cope with the global financial crisis.
The measures included support for the development, transformation and upgrading of Taiwanese-funded companies on the mainland, promotion of two-way investment, improving financing services for Taiwanese-funded enterprises, and so on.
-- In July 2009, the fifth Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum was held in central China's Changsha City.
A proposal demanding closer cross-Strait cultural exchanges and cooperation between the cultural industries in addition to educational and media institutions, was presented at the forum.
A package of favorable policies to boost cultural and educational exchanges between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan were also announced.
