Cheng Li-wun’s visit to China, expected to take place in April, would be the first by a sitting leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party in a decade.

The leader of Taiwan’s largest opposition party is set to visit China in April after accepting an invite from Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In a statement on Monday, Kuomintang (KMT) said its chairperson, Cheng Li-wun, was “grateful” for the invitation and had “gladly” accepted it.

Cheng “expressed hope that the two parties (the KMT and China’s Communist Party) ‌would work together to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, strengthen cross-strait exchanges and ‌cooperation, ​secure peace in the Taiwan Strait, and enhance the well-being of the people,” her party said.