Visiting Kuomintang (KMT) Party Chairman Lien Chan said in Beijing Friday that the steps of history could not be shifted by the subjective will of anyone.

"You can not push history. Success can only be made when you take concrete steps," said Lien while asked by a girl student to comment his current historic visit to the mainland after the KMT chairman's 40-minute speech to students and teachers of Beijing University.

Lien said he felt it a great honor to have stepped on "the historic bus" to embark on his "journey of peace" to the mainland at a critical turning point in history.