One can't get hold of the newspapers or magazines they read on the other side, and exchanges of books are also few. In such circumstances, everyone just repeats hearsay, and this isn't beneficial to scientific and technological exchange.
兩岸報紙、期刊彼此看不到，書籍交流也少，這種情況下，大家道聽途說，對科技交流不會有利。