CHENGDU - The mainland and Taiwan have jointly proposed further developing economic and cultural ties and are calling for the setting up of an information-sharing mechanism on nuclear power safety.

The moves were made on Sunday at the end of the Seventh Cross-Straits Economic, Trade and Culture Forum - a regular session involving the mainland and Taiwan - that concluded in Chengdu, the capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province.

It was the first time the two had put nuclear power safety on the agenda of cross-Straits exchanges, which Beijing's top Taiwan affairs official, Wang Yi, said was "beneficial for grassroots people on both sides".