ARATS chairman Chen, a former head of the Taiwan Affairs Office of mainland China's State Council, is the highest-ranking mainland negotiator to visit Taiwan since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.
曾任中共國台辦主任的海協會長陳雲林，是 1949 年中華人民共和國成立以來，中國授權訪台層級最高的談判代表。