Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met Taiwan's chief negotiator Chiang Pin-kun Friday afternoon at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing.

Chiang, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), arrived in Beijing around 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday to attend talks with the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS).

The ARATS and SEF resumed talks after nine years' suspension.

(Xinhua News Agency June 13, 2008)