Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) holds an online chat with Internet users at two state news portals in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 27, 2011. The two portals, namely www.gov.cn of the central government and www.xinhuanet.com of the Xinhua News Agency, jointly interviewed Premier Wen on Sunday with questions raised by netizens. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)

BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday he hopes to see a reunited China through the joint efforts of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Wen made the remarks while answering a question concerning a legendary Chinese painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" during an online chat with Internet users.

The painting was burned into two in a fire in 1650. The right part, 51.4-cm long, is kept in the mainland's Zhejiang Museum, while the left part, 636.9-cm long, is held in Taipei's Palace Museum.

The two parts will be displayed together in a four-month exhibition beginning June in Taiwan.

The scroll painting of unusual length was created by famed painter Huang Gongwang (1269-1354) in 1350. It vividly depicts an early autumn scene on the banks of the Fuchun River in Hangzhou. It is regarded as one of the greatest achievements of traditional Chinese landscape painting technique.

"I hope that, through the joint efforts of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, we will see an integrated and reunited China, and that a complete painting will be placed together forever," Wen said.