A cross-Strait forum on agricultural cooperation will be held in Taipei this October, sources with the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said in Beijing Wednesday.

Chen Yunlin (R), director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, talks with Tseng Yung-Chuan, head of Taiwan's Kuomintang group in Beijing February 22, 2006. [Reuters/file]

A spokesman with the office told Xinhua that Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee, is invited to head a delegation for the forum. The 60-plus-member delegation will include officials of this office, leaders of relevant trade associations and agricultural companies, as well as some scholars.

According to the spokesman, the forum will be jointly sponsored by a research center of this office and a research fund of the Kuomintang party.

The forum will take the theme of "enhancing cross-Strait agricultural cooperation to realize a win-win result", and focus on three topics, namely, the opportunities and challenges of the entry into the World Trade Organization, the ways of cross-Strait cooperation in agriculture, and the problems and solutions for such cooperation.