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CCA to hold 5th cross-strait forum on economy, culture

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The 5th Cross-strait Economic, Trade and Cultural Forum is scheduled to be held on July 11-12, at the mainland city of Changsha.

The Council of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Education, and Army Committee will gather to discuss topics such as improving the cultural bond cross-straits and work to exchange educational ideas. The Council of Cultural Affairs hoped to set up a Folk Cultural Office as a platform for communication; and also brought up the topic of respecting intellectual property for the sake of protecting industries in China from the threat of plagiarism.

The cross-strait forum can be viewed as the graduation trip for the head of the Kuomintang Party (KMT) Wu Poh-hsing. The forum is to be attended by about two hundred experts, and a gathering of students will also be arranged on the sidelines, breaching a new record in attendance from the past. It will focus on promoting cross-strait cultural and educational exchanges and cooperation; and numerous leaders of the academic world were invited, including the principal of NTU, the former principal, and the former head of the Ministry of Education.

According Li zheng-Rong, director of Communication and Culture Committee, President Ma Ying-jeou hopes for China and Taiwan to collaborate in producing a joint dictionary as well as confirming the validity of traditional Chinese characters. Chang Yu-Tang has expressed hopes of China signing a cross-straits exchange treaty as well as setting up a Central Cultural office, an act that has never before been realized.

President Ma thinks there is much room for the trading and exchange of the cultural innovation industry; while many pop artists have become popular in China, the problem of plagiarism continues to pervade. Chang Yu-Tang has expressed that it might take a long time before intellectual property finds protection from investors and that it is important to first establish a consensus in ideology.

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