And during the process of deliberations, government officials from Taiwan and Hong Kong never met with each other, but could only use private-sector business people as intermediaries. At the signing ceremony, it was not the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, nor the CAA, but representatives of two commercial airlines from Taiwan and Hong Kong that signed the document.
而協商過程中，台港雙方官不見官，只透過民間業者居中傳話；簽約儀式不由外交部、不由民航局，卻由台、港各派兩家航空公司代表簽署，玄機在此。