Since Novem ber 1987, over 500,000 people from Taiwan have been to the mainland for family visits, international conferences, sports competitions, newsgathering, and filmmaking, and have exercised a far-reaching influence on the people of the mainland. Taiwan's success story has been disseminated across the mainland through these channels, and was one of the motivating factors behind the mainland democracy movement.
自一九八七年十一月我們開放民眾赴大陸探親，及其後一連串開放赴大陸參加國際會議、體育比賽、新聞採訪及電影電視拍片等等措施以來，已有五十萬以上民眾前往大陸，其影響層面相當廣闊。台灣成功的經驗已透過這些管道散播大陸各地，這對大陸民主運動有很大的激勵作用。