Academia Sinica researcher Lee Fong-mao, who has made many deep forays into mainland China for field surveys, states impartially that Taiwan's religious pilgrims certainly deserve considerable credit for their contributions in restoring temples; nevertheless, for the past 40 years in mainland China, religious activities "have always been in existence."
多次深入大陸作田野調查的中央研究院研究員李豐楙持平地表示，台灣的香客在廟容修建的奉獻上的確有相當的功勞，然而大陸這四十多年來的宗教活動也「一直存在」。