Former KMT chief ends mainland visit
Ma Ying-jeou, former chairman of the Kuomintang party, and his delegation concluded their 12-day mainland visit on Friday and returned to Taiwan by plane from Shanghai at noon.
Officials from the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee went to the airport to see them off.
Ma led a delegation to Shanghai and then went to Nanjing of Jiangsu province on his first visit to the mainland on March 27.
During his stay on the mainland, Ma visited Nanjing in Jiangsu province, Wuhan in Hubei province, Changsha in Hunan province, Chongqing and Shanghai.
In Nanjing, he visited the Mausoleum of Dr SunYat-sen, founder of the KMT, and the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.
He returned to Xiangtan, Hunan province, to worship his ancestors.
He also led a group of Taiwan students on a visit to Wuhan University in Hubei, Hunan University in Hunan and Fudan University in Shanghai and carried out exchanges and discussions with local students.
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