Besides these efforts to engage mainland China, before the formal opening of the APEC ministerial conference, ROC minister of economic affairs Lin Yi-fu held bilateral talks successively with the US, Mexico, Vietnam, Chile, Indonesia, New Zealand, and other countries.
除了積極尋求與大陸互動，在二十三日 APEC 部長會議正式展開前，經濟部長林義夫也陸續與美國、墨西哥、越南、智利、印尼、紐西蘭等多個國家完成雙邊會談。