The China Post
July 29, 2010
TAIPEI — Chinese President Hu Jintao’s son made a top-secret visit to Taiwan earlier this month, a Taipei-based weekly said yesterday, amid improving ties between the former bitter rivals.
Hu Haifeng, accompanied by unidentified high-ranking Chinese officials, arrived on the island on July 18 and met with agricultural experts, Next Magazine quoted unnamed sources as saying.
The weekly said Hu’s trip was kept under wraps as he was forced to call off a planned visit to Taiwan in May to attend an academic conference after the island’s media got wind of it.
Hu, a top official at Tsinghua University’s Yangtze Delta Region Institute in the southeastern province of Zhejiang, also discussed agricultural technology transfer with researcher Tsay Tung-tsuan, the report said. more …
