At the time of the overthrow of the Ching Dynasty, they were the mothers of the revolution; in the initial phase of Taiwan's economic reconstruction they came back to invest and help our economy develop, creating jobs; now, with the development of relations across the Taiwan Strait, the role of the Overseas Chinese is still very important: they form a pressure group and lend weight to whichever side they support.
革命的時代他們是革命之母；到台灣經濟建設初期，他們回國投資幫助我們經濟發展，創造了就業機會；現在兩岸關係發展的階段，僑胞的角色還是很重要，他們是一種壓力團體，有一個法碼作用，他站在哪一邊，哪一邊的份量就會重。