The visiting Kuomintang (KMT) Party of China Chairman Lien Chan left Beijing for Xi'an, the third leg on his eight-day mainland tour, at around 9:30 AM on Saturday.

Lien was scheduled to pay homage to the tomb of his grandmother located in Xi'an, of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, before heading for east China's financial hub Shanghai, the last stop on the tour.

(Xinhua News Agency April 30, 2005)