Mainland and Taiwan aviation authorities announced on Sunday plans to cut cross-Strait airfares by 10-15% to boost tourism, state media reported. Li Jiaxiang, director of the General Administration of Civil Aviation, also said at the second Straits Forum in Xiamen that four new airports will be built and another four will be renovated in Fujian province’s Western Coast Economic Zone. Forty flights will also be added, bringing the total number of cross-Strait flights to 420. A record 5.4 million people from mainland China and Taiwan traveled across the Strait last year, including 330,000 Taiwan residents who had never visited the mainland before. The number of mainland tourists traveling to Taiwan is estimated to reach one million in 2010, according to the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office.
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