Wang Kuang-chih, vice-president in charge of remittances at the Taiwan branch of the Citibank N.A., points out that after visits were permitted, many people were shocked by the extent of the hardship of the lives of friends and family in mainland China, and it became a common ambition of older mainlander men and women to give money to someone to take to the mainland for them.
美國花旗銀行在台分行、主管匯款業務的副總裁王廣志指出，開放探親後，大陸親友生活的凋蔽、困窘程度，令許多人大吃一驚，託人帶錢到大陸就成了外省籍老先生、老太太們普遍記掛的心事。