For the past three years, the Democratic Progressive Party has allowed Taiwan's financial institutions to set up branch offices in mainland China and facilitate direct remittances between Taiwan and the mainland. But when it has come to actual transportation across the strait, apart from allowing chartered flights to carry Taiwanese businessmen back to Taiwan for Chinese New Year this year, few new policies in this direction have made it off the ground.
三年來，民進黨政府在兩岸經貿上完成了金融機構赴大陸設辦事處、兩岸直接通匯等措施，但在兩岸通航上，除了今年春節包機載運台商回台過節外，卻少有進展。