Ch'en Ch'i-lu, chairman of the Council for Cultural Planning and Development, analyzes the present population of Taiwan as primarily made up of the aborigines, whose ancestors were the first to come to the island; of the Hakka and Fukienese Chinese whose ancestors came to Taiwan 300 or 400 years ago; and of the Chinese from all parts of the mainland who came to the island with the government in 1949.
文化建設委員會主任委員陳奇祿分析，台省人口大致是由最早移入的先住民，中期來台的閩南人、客家人和民國卅八年隨政府遷台的大陸各省人士所組成。