Song Tao, head of both the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, on Wednesday met with Andrew Hsia, vice chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party, in east China's Jiangxi Province. He said the mainland is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the KMT on the common political foundation of adhering to the 1992 Consensus and opposing "Taiwan independence."