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 | A Chinese woman holds up the Nationalist Party flag and the Communist flag as she waits with others for the arrival of Taiwan's Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan to a school in Xi'an, western China, Saturday, April 30, 2005. Lien flew to Xi'an after meeting Friday in the capital with Chinese President Hu Jintao in the highest-level encounter between the two sides since they split in 1949. click to open  |  | A Chinese man holds up the Nationalist Party flag and the Communist flag as Chinese security officers hold back crowd prior to the arrival of Taiwan's Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan to a school in Xi'an, western China, Saturday, April 30, 2005. Lien flew to Xi'an after meeting Friday in the capital with Chinese President Hu Jintao in the highest-level encounter between the two sides since they split in 1949. click to open |  | A Chinese girl reacts near the Chinese word for 'Lien' as she is squeezed by the crowd gathered at a school where Taiwan's Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan will visit in Xi'an, western China, Saturday, April 30, 2005. Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan flew to Xi'an after meeting Friday with Chinese President Hu Jintao in the highest-level encounter between the two sides since they split in 1949. They promised to jointly promote peace and economic ties, a pledge that Taiwan's premier on Saturday suggested might be illegal. click to open |  | Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan, left, his wife Lien Fang Yu, center, and daughter Lien Hui-Shing, right, stroll by the terracotta warrior museum in Xi'an, western China, Saturday, April 30, 2005. Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan flew to Xi'an after meeting Friday with Chinese President Hu Jintao in the highest-level encounter between the two sides since they split in 1949. They promised to jointly promote peace and economic ties, a pledge that Taiwan's premier on Saturday suggested might be illegal. click to open |  | Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan, center left, and his wife Lien Fang Yu, center right, wave as other family members and delegates look on during their side tour to the terracotta warrior museum in Xi'an, western China, Saturday, April 30, 2005. Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan flew to Xi'an after meeting Friday with Chinese President Hu Jintao in the highest-level encounter between the two sides since they split in 1949. They promised to jointly promote peace and economic ties, a pledge that Taiwan's premier on Saturday suggested might be illegal. click to open |  | A Chinese girl holds the flags of the Kuomintang party (R) and China's Communist Party during a welcome ceremony for Taiwan's opposition leader Lien Chan at Houzaimen Primary School in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi province, April 30, 2005. Lien and Chinese President Hu Jintao closed the book on decades of hostility on Friday with a simple handshake in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. click to open |  | Taiwan's opposition leader Lien Chan (2L) speaks upon his arrival in Xian, 30 April, 2005. Lien met with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Beijing 29 April for the first meeting between heads of the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party in 56 years. click to open |  | Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan delivers a speech at Xi'an airport, the third leg of his eight-day mainland tour April 30, 2005. Lien's meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao won mixed reviews at home on Saturday, with some newspapers praising his peace efforts and others accusing Lien of selling out Taiwan. click to open |  | '98 Sino-US Summit: Xi'an - Clinton receives the key to the city from the mayor of Xi'an Feng Xichu click to open |  | '98 Sino-US Summit: Xi'an - drummers at the welcoming ceremony for U.S. President Bill Clinton, whose Air Foce One touched down in the city for the first time in history. [CNN photo] click to open |
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