After hosting a gathering of DPP members on one floor of the hotel, the president then proceeded to an official state banquet for VIPs on another floor of the same hotel. At the DPP function, party chairman Lin Yi-hsiung had a word of caution for his fellow party members: "We must not let our newly attained power go to our heads."
五二○當天國宴設在圓山飯店，陳水扁並在不同樓層同時宴請民進黨人士，黨主席林義雄在宴會中期勉黨員同志「應在權力的面前謙虛」。