The "second Chiang-Chen meeting" at Taipei's Grand Hotel (preceded by a meeting between the two in Beijing in June), marked a historic resumption in Taiwan of negotiations that had last taken place between Koo Chen-fu and Wang Daohan in Singapore back in 1993.
他與海基會董事長江丙坤在台北圓山飯店登場的「二次江陳會」，也是自 1993 年在新加坡舉行的「辜汪會談」後，兩岸兩會首度移師台灣談判，深具歷史意義。