"Until three years ago, Taiwan firms thought of mainland China as a secondary market, with their eyes still focused on the US and Europe," says Kao Charng, a research fellow at the Chung Hua Institution for Economic Research. But in April 1999 PRC premier Zhu Rongji, visiting the US to negotiate terms for mainland China's entry into the WTO, made numerous market-opening concessions.
「直到三年前，大陸在台商眼中還是次級市場，大家眼中盯的都是歐美市場，」中華經濟研究院大陸經濟所研究員高長分析，然而，九九年四月，中共總理朱鎔基赴美磋商加入 WTO，對開放市場做出了讓步。