By the end of September of 1997, Taiwanese business people had already invested US $ 12 billion in mainland China. According to mainland statistics the figure has reached as much as US $ 36.5 billion.
截至民國八十六年九月，台商赴大陸投資已達一二○億美元，據大陸的統計則已達三百六十五億美元，高居大陸外資第二位。