In a survey on "The Influence of Family Visits and Travel in the Mainland" conducted by several scholars including Ting Tin-yu, Ch'u Hai-yuan, Lin Cheng-yi, and Tsai Ming-chang, because people get a chance to see life in the mainland up close, not only will the policy of visits to the mainland not spur reunification, it may even make reunification all the more difficult.
由瞿海源、丁庭宇、林正義、蔡明璋幾位學者所主持的一項「大陸探親及訪問的影響」調查，結果顯示：由於目睹對岸的生活情形，大陸探親或訪問不能促使兩岸走向統一，反而可能使中國統一更形困難。