Hu Jintao's son came to Taiwan earlier in July: magazine

Hu Haifeng, accompanied by unidentified high-ranking Chinese officials, arrived on the island on July 18 and met with agricultural experts, Next Magazine quoted unnamed sources as saying.

The weekly said Hu's trip was kept under wraps as he was forced to call off a planned visit to Taiwan in May to attend an academic conference after the island's media got wind of it.

Hu, a top official at Tsinghua University's Yangtze Delta Region Institute in the southeastern province of Zhejiang, also discussed agricultural technology transfer with researcher Tsay Tung-tsuan, the report said.

Tsay, who heads the plant pathology department in National Chung Hsing University in central Taiwan, was not immediately available for comment.

Tsay reportedly told the weekly that he met with “heavyweight Chinese officials” in mid-July who “can call the shots of China's agricultural policy” but declined to say whether Hu was among them.

Next Magazine is known for its investigative reporting and has broken important stories in the past.

As the son of China's leader, Hu Haifeng would be one of the highest-profile visitors yet from the mainland, since Taiwan's Beijing-friendly President Ma Ying-jeou assumed power in 2008.

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