Since the founding of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) on our side and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) on theirs, there have been 17 rounds of substantive discussions between the two. The 1993 "Koo-Wang summit" established a systematic channel for communication between the two sides, and was an important achievement in the development of cross-strait relations.
我方海基會和對岸的海協會成立以來，已進行了十七次的事務性協商，而民國八十二年「辜汪會談」建立兩岸制度化溝通協商管道，是兩岸關係發展以來極為重要的成就。