Chen Yunlin, President of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), shakes hands with Chiang Pin-kung, Chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), during the fifth round of talks between mainland and Taiwan, in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality June 29, 2010. (Photo: ChinaTaiwan)

CHONGQING, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese mainland's negotiator on cross-Strait ties Chen Yunlin started talks with his Taiwan counterpart Chiang Pin-kung on Tuesday morning in Chongqing Municipality, southwest China.

Chen, president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and Chiang, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), will exchange views on a long-awaited economic pact and an agreement on the protection of intellectual property rights during their talks.

This was the fifth round of talks between them in two years.