Visiting Chinese top national advisor Jia Qinglin expounded China's position on the Taiwan question in a speech at Colombian Congress Tuesday.

Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said that China's Anti- Secession Law adopted by the National People's Congress is a law that promotes cross-Straits relations and the prospect of a peaceful reunification.

It is a law that opposes and checks Taiwan's secession from China, a law that maintains peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits, Jia stressed.

In the speech entitled "Enhancing Mutually Beneficial Cooperation and Promoting Common Development," Jia said that this law has fully demonstrated China's consistent position of utmost efforts and maximum sincerity for a peaceful reunification and the common will of the entire Chinese people to maintain China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The intensifying "Taiwan independence" secessionist activities in recent years have not only become the biggest obstacle to developing cross-Straits relations, but also severely threatened peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits and the Asia-Pacific region on the whole, he said.

Under such circumstance, the National People's Congress of China passed the law in order to stop "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces from separating the country, promote peaceful reunification of the motherland, maintain national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and safeguard the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, Jia noted.

Jia Qinglin is visiting Colombia at the invitation of Colombian Congress President Luis Gomez.

The CPPCC is China's top advisory body, consisting of representatives of the Communist Party of China, non-Communist parties, personages without party affiliation, and representatives of people's organizations, national minorities and all social strata.

The main functions of the CPPCC are to conduct political consultation, exercise democratic supervision and participate in the discussion and handling of state affairs.

Source: Xinhua