This year's event marked the first meeting between Chinese and Taiwanese officials since October 1998's Koo-Wang talks in Shanghai, and was the highest-level meeting between the two sides since they split nearly 60 years ago.
這是自 1998 年 10 月於中國上海舉行「辜汪會談」後，兩岸準官方層級的首次晤談，也可謂兩岸分隔 60 年來的最高層級會晤，引發全球矚目。