BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland would host the cross-Strait forum on agricultural cooperation in October since efforts to hold it in Taipei had failed, an official with the Kuomintang (KMT) Party said here Thursday.

The announcement was made by Tseng Yung-Chuan, director of KMT's central policy committee, during a meeting with Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China(CPC) Central Committee. Enditem