page_title: Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
section_title: List of presidents
hierarchical_section_title: Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits / List of presidents
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: 42. Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz 2006: Zhijun Zhang, Stellvertretender Minister, Internationale Abteilung, Zentralkomitee der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas, Volksrepublik China. English: 42nd Munich Security Conference 2006: Zhijun Zhang, Vice-Minister, International Department, Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, People's Republik of China.
context_page_description: The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits is an organization set up by the People's Republic of China for handling technical or business matters with the Republic of China.
  The ROC counterpart to ARATS is the Straits Exchange Foundation.
  The foundation's founding chairman was former Shanghai mayor Wang Daohan, honorary chairman Rong Yiren. Negotiations with SEF stopped in 1999, and after Wang's death in 2005, no new chair was appointed until 2008. Following the election of Ma Ying-jeou to the presidency of the Republic of China on Taiwan, talks between ARATS and SEF have restarted and progress was made in the areas of transport and economy such as the Three links in 2008 and Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement in 2010. Chen Yunlin, who was formerly head of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, was the head of ARATS from 2008 to 2013. He has met his counterpart Chiang Pin-kung in 2008.
caption: Zhang Zhijun, the incumbent President of ARATS.
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