Beginning in 1990, the ROC began to relax the ban on indirect investment and trade with mainland China. Investment in the mainland by Taiwan companies increased sharply, until it accounted for about half of all ROC investment abroad.
一九九○年起，政府開放對中國大陸間接投資及貿易，此後台商對大陸的投資快速增加，幾乎佔我國對外投資額的半數。