With the end of martial law in 1987, the ban on new newspapers was lifted. In the following years, the industry turned red hot, with the number of papers rising from 31 to 239. But the boom was restricted to Chinese-language papers. As before, there were only two English papers: the China News and the China Post.
報禁解除後，台灣的報業在幾年內熱絡起來，由三十一家大幅增加到二百三十九家，但這樣的榮景只限於中文報紙，英文報長久以來只有《China News》（英文中國日報）和《China Post》（英文中國郵報）兩家。