Taipei - China and Taiwan will hold talks in autumn to discuss opening sea links across the Taiwan Strait, a newspaper reported Friday.

The statement was made by Chen Yunlin, China's top negotiator with Taiwan, at a maritime seminar Thursday in Taicang, in China's Jiangsu Province, the China Times said.

The seminar was attended by Chinese and Taiwanese shipping industry executives and port officials.

At the seminar, Chen, chairman of the Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), said he expects to visit Taiwan in autumn, and the first issue to be discussed will be sea links across the Taiwan Strait.

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