After assuming the presidency, Chen Shui-bian recruited a number of leading politicians, industrialists, academics and other personages for a non-partisan advisory group, intended to build cross-party consensus on the subject of relations with the mainland.
陳水扁總統上任後，為凝聚朝野對兩岸關係的共識，由中研院長李遠哲擔任召集人，邀請各政黨、產業界、學界、社會賢達組成跨黨派小組。