However, following the PRC's opening to the outside world, rapid economic growth there, its reclaiming of Hong Kong, and increasingly close interaction among the three entities, a unified Chinese-language market is irresistibly taking shape. This is so despite the differences between complex and simplified characters, because most Chinese can understand both.
然而，隨著大陸開放、經濟起飛，香港回歸中國，兩岸三地往來日益密切，出版品的差異將日漸縮小，華文單一市場已成為必然的趨勢。