The Chinese mainland and Taiwan signed Sunday afternoon agreements on launching regular flights across the Taiwan Straits, enhancing financial cooperation, and jointly cracking down on crimes and offering mutual judicial assistance.

The mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) President Chen Yunlin and the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Chiang Pin-kung signed the three agreements in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.

(CCTV April 24, 2009)