The year 1987 also saw an opening of exchanges across Taiwan Strait. Taiwanese businesspeople began streaming across to the mainland to "visit family" and became the vanguard of cross-strait "economic unification," while also helping to spur the "Chinese economic miracle" of the past decade.
民國七十六年間適時開放的兩岸交流，更讓眾多台商頂著「探親」名義，絡驛不絕湧向大陸，成為兩岸「經濟統一」的先頭部隊，還間接促成了近十年來舉世矚目的「中國經濟奇蹟」。