Editing Lien Chan (section)

===April 2005 breakthrough journey to mainland China===
{{Main|2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China}}

[[File:Kuomintang nanjing.jpg|thumb|Lien Chan and the [[Kuomintang]] touring the [[Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum]] in [[Nanjing]]. The [[2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China|Pan-Blue coalition visited the mainland]] in 2005.]]

On April 26, 2005, Lien Chan traveled to [[mainland China]] to meet with the leaders of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP). His meeting with [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party|Communist Party general secretary]] [[Hu Jintao]] was the highest level exchange since [[Chiang Kai-shek]] and [[Mao Zedong]] met in [[Chongqing]] on August 28, 1945, to celebrate the victory in the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and discuss a possible truce in the impending [[Chinese Civil War]].

On April 27, Lien visited the [[Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum]] in Nanjing. On April 28, he arrived in Beijing.

On the afternoon of April 29, he met with PRC [[Paramount leader]] [[Hu Jintao]] (in his capacity as [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]]).

Before meeting with Hu on April 29, Lien Chan delivered a speech at [[Peking University]], which his 96-year-old mother Chao Lan-kun attended nearly 80 years ago. On April 30, he headed to his birthplace [[Xi'an]]. He revisited [[Houzaimen Primary School]], which he attended 60 years ago. He also visited the Great Mausoleum of [[Qin Shi Huang]], China's first emperor. Early on May 1, he paid homage to his grandmother's tomb near Qingliangsi.

Later that day, Lien arrived in [[Shanghai]], where he attended a banquet hosted by Shanghai CCP Party Secretary General [[Chen Liangyu]]. On May 2, he met with [[Wang Daohan]], the 90-year-old chairman of the mainland-based [[Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits]], and the representatives of Taiwanese businesspeople. He returned to Taiwan at noon on May 3.