A regulation on Chinese mainland residents' travel to Taiwan is being made by the National Tourism Administration and other related departments and will be released soon, said an official in charge of Taiwan affairs in Beijing Wednesday.

Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said preparations for mainland residents' travel to Taiwan has been made by the mainland side since the ban on residents' tour to Taiwan was lifted by the mainland on May 3, 2005.

When meeting with the Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) group headed by KMT legislative leader Tseng Yung-Chuan, Chen said the regulation is another important step in promoting mainland citizen's tour to Taiwan.

"We sincerely hope the non-governmental tourism organizations on both sides of the Straits have talks and make arrangement on this issue as soon as possible," Chen said.

"We don't object the officials with related departments of Taiwan to join the talks with non-governmental status," Chen added.

Source: Xinhua