Looking at the situation from a different perspective, Cheng Chien-jen, director general of the GIO, points out that in Taiwan a total of more than 5,800 magazines have been registered with around 450 in circulation at any given time. This contrasts sharply with the strict mainland Chinese market.
另一方面，和大陸市場比較起來，新聞局長程建人指出，我國登記有案的雜誌達五千八百多種，經常在市面上流通的也有四百五十種。