BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhuanet) -- A Chinese expert on Taiwan Friday urged the Taiwan authorities to grasp the "sincerity and goodwill"expressed in the Anti-Secession Law and Chinese President Hu Jintao's recent speech and take steps "conducive to improving" cross-Strait relations.
"If they do this, Taiwan will be greatly blessed and the cross-Strait relations greatly improved," Huang Jiashu, professor of the People's University of China, said here in an interview with Xinhua. "If they stir up and support the protest march, then the atmosphere will be further harmed and the situation further aggravated."
Huang said the anti-secession law passed by China's legislature recently is a law "to safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity" and a law "to maintain the status quo that both the mainland and Taiwan belong to the one and same China."
He said "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces "malevolently distorted" the anti-secession law and sought to instigate hostility between people across the Taiwan Straits.
"The secessionist forces plot to stir up public sentiments to embolden themselves. Such moves are doomed to meet failure," Huang said.
A symposium held in Beijing Friday also echoed the call on the Taiwan people to "correctly understand" Hu's speech and the anti-secession law.
In his March 4 speech on Taiwan issue, Hu Jintao said the Chinese people will do their best to seek peaceful reunification of the motherland but will never tolerate "Taiwan independence." Enditem
Over 500 groups, including the Democratic Progressive Party, are planning a massive march and rally for Saturday in Taipei City. March promoters are vowing to bring one million people onto the streets to protest the People's Republic of China's "anti-secession" law aimed at thwarting Taiwan independence.

The march, titled "326 March for Democracy and Peace", will begin in ten different locations, converging on the square near the Presidential Office in downtown Taipei City.

"Democracy and peace are the ultimate goal of the march," said Joseph Wu, the Mainland Affairs Council Chairman. Wu announced on Friday that he would take part in the rally, but did not disclose in which part of the parade he would appear.

Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian announced on Thursday that he will also attend the event with his family.

"I cannot and will not be absent on March 26, and I will take my entire family to participate in this sacred moment in history to walk and stand up together with the Taiwanese people," Chen said. Chen further declared that he has, "heard the outrage and anger of the Taiwan people."

A Chinese scholar warned that the situation could become "further aggravated" by Saturday's planned event.

"The secessionist forces plot to stir up public sentiments to embolden themselves. Such moves are doomed to meet failure," said Huang Jiashu, a professor at the People's University of China. He stated that secessionist forces had "malevolently distorted" the anti-secession law.

The ''Taiwan Domestic News Hour'' on ''ETTV'' is running a ''326'' graphic to note the march and rally during its news reports about the upcoming event, and also has an animated graphic with marchers carrying signs in the lower-left hand corner of the screen.