Honorary Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) party in Taiwan Lien Chan Saturday sent a message to General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Hu Jintao, expressing his thanks to Hu's message of congratulations and vows to keep working for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

On Friday, Hu congratulated Lien Chan, former chairman of the KMT, on his becoming KMT honorary chairman.

Lien said in the message that four months had passed since his meeting with Hu in Beijing, which unfolded the prelude to the new relations across the Taiwan Straits and between the two parties.

"With your support and the joint efforts of the two parties, all measures beneficial to the well-being of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits have been pushed forward in this period to the high-degree of acknowledgement of the public," said Lien.

"Peace, stability and development across the Taiwan Straits are the common responsibilities of our two parties as well as the common missions of us two for the Chinese nation and people on both sides of the Straits," he said.

He said that the "common aspiration and prospects for cross-Straits peace and development" he and Hu jointly issued earlier this year had been written into the policy platform of the KMT at the 17th National Congress of the party.

"What I personally care for is not only the rejuvenation of the KMT, but also the realization of cross-Straits peace and a win-win situation," Lien said.

He said leaders of both sides of the Straits should concentrate on bringing benefits for the people and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

"I would like to work with you to turn our aspiration and prospects into reality," said Lien.

(Xinhua New Agency August 21, 2005)