It looks like a cold winter ahead for Taiwan's print media. When press censorship ended in Taiwan in 1988, the China Times Group seized the opportunity to found China Times Express. The Taiwanese evening newspaper market then entered a period of a tripartite balance of power between the China Times Express, the United Evening News, and the Independence Evening Post.
1988 年台灣報禁開放，中時集團趁勢創辦晚報，台灣的晚報市場自此進入中時晚報、聯合晚報、自立晚報的三足鼎立時代，之後又有象山集團的勁報加入戰局。