In this way, Matsu, once maligned as "interfering in frontier defense," has joined the vanguard in addressing the Taiwan question. This reactionary superstition, once categorized as one of the "four olds," turned out to be beneficial to economic development and is helping achieve the "four modernizations."
這下原本可能「干擾邊防」的媽祖，反成了對台工作的前哨；原本屬於「四舊」的封建迷信，反倒有助於經濟發展，達到「四化」的理想。