Li Xinkui states that in the larger southern Chinese cities, there is a real "resurgence of complex characters," but that it is "mainly restricted to a few organizations with relatively close contacts with Hong Kong and Taiwan, or else to ordinary people trying to pass themselves off as cultured, as it is fashionable to show that one is able to write complex characters."
李新魁表示，在南方各大城市的確有「繁體字回潮」的現象，但是「大多限於少數與港台交流較密切的機構，要不就是大眾刻意附庸風雅，以能寫繁體字為時尚」。