More mainlanders to visit Taiwan as individual tourists

Authorities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will allow more residents of mainland cities to visit the island as individual tourists in 2013, a mainland spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Expanding the list of eligible cities will be done in an active, yet prudent and step-by-step manner, Fan Liqing, spokeswoman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said at a regular press conference.