Last September, when Red Cross officials from Taiwan and the mainland signed an agreement to use Kinmen as a transit point in repatriating illegal immigrants to Taiwan from the mainland, some people suggested the island could serve as a "halfway house" between the two sides.
在去年九月，兩岸紅十字會人員在金門就遣返大陸偷渡人員的方式、路線等簽定「金門協議」；其後金門又成為遣返大陸偷渡客的轉運站。因此，更有人提議：「乾脆讓金門做為兩岸交流的中繼站」。