[3] It introduced eight preferential policies, including building cross-strait common market activities and encouraging mainland tourists to visit Taiwan.
The forum consisted of opening ceremony and evening party, policy discussion, cross-strait culture and art exchanges and public carnival.
The forum included 13 activities, such as cross-strait folk stories, cultural exchanges and Taiwan temple fairs stage.
[5] The fourth Straits Forum was held on 16–22 June 2012 in Xiamen, Fujian opened by Jia Qinglin.
The forum was themed expand civilian exchanges, boost cross-strait cooperation and promote common development.
It featured cultural and economic exchanges, grassroots interactions and communication among people from all walks of life.
Special workshops were held on the film and music, press and publication and martial arts sectors.
Mainland China boosted cross-strait exchanges by introducing a set of preferential policies in the field of legal rights, education, culture and tourism.
A cross-strait copyright trade center and digital publication base working across the strait would be established in Fujian.
The forum attracted more than 10,000 Taiwanese representatives from various sectors which participated in 18 major activities in different Fujian cities.
[13] During the forum, the Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Yu Zhengsheng made an announcement to exempt Taiwanese from obtaining the travel permit in the future whenever they want to visit mainland China.