Taipei, Dec. 23 (CNA) A pair of Formosan serow and a pair of Formosan sika deer presented to China will be housed in northeast China, according to China’s top negotiator with Taiwan.

Chen Yunlin, president of Beijing’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), said Tuesday that after an evaluation, it was decided that the animals will be sent to a forest park in Weihai, Shandong province.

Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), welcomed the arrangement.

The SEF and the ARATS signed agreements later that day on fishing crew cooperation, agricultural quarantine inspection, and industrial product standards, inspection and certification in the fourth and latest round of the Chiang-Chen talks.

The two intermediary bodies reached a consensus during their second round of talks in Nov. 2008 to present each other with rare indigenous fauna and flora species as tokens of friendship and amity.

A pair of giant pandas and 17 Davidia involucrata, or dove trees, were sent by China to Taiwan last December. (By Feng Chao and Lilian Wu)

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