The Governor of the Chinese mainland's Zhejiang Province, Lu Zushan, will lead a delegation to Taiwan from June 9 to 16, Yang Yi, spokesman for the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, said Wednesday.

Yang said the delegation would launch cooperation programs with Taiwan counterparts in finance, agriculture, tourism, culture and education.

The delegation would inspect and learn about Taiwan's experience in environment protection, disaster response and relief, and public services at the grassroots level, Yang said.

The delegation would also visit residential communities, villages and enterprises to communicate with residents.

Yang said leading officials from many provinces and municipalities had led delegations to Taiwan.

"These visits add to cross-Strait exchanges and expand exchanges and communication between compatriots on both sides of the Strait and bring substantial benefit to Taiwanese compatriots," he said.

Since the beginning of this year, leading officials from various municipalities and provinces - Shanghai, Hubei, Fujian, Guizhou, Qinghai, Shandong and Sichuan - and the ministries of commerce and agriculture have led delegations to Taiwan.

Yang said cultural and museum organizations across the Taiwan Strait had preliminary talks on jointly exhibiting the painting, "Dwelling in the Fu Chun Mountains", half of which is kept in a museum in the Hangzhou city, Zhejiang, and the other half in the Taipei-based Palace Museum.

The painting was created by Huang Gongwang in Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368).

Yang said the Taipei-based museum hoped to borrow the other part of the painting from Zhejiang, so as to put them together and exhibit the complete painting.

Yang said the joint exhibition would help people from both sides to share the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation and enhance their awareness of China's valuable traditional culture.

"To jointly exhibit the painting is the common wish of compatriots from the both sides. The exhibition will be of great significance to cross-Strait exchanges and we will be happy to witness its realization," said Yang.