At the annual APEC forum, held in New Zealand at the beginning of September, officials from both Taiwan and mainland China met in an international conference for the first time since ROC president Lee Teng-hui announced that he considered the two sides to have a "special state-to-state relationship."
九月初，一年一度的亞太經濟合作會議（APEC）於紐西蘭召開，這是在李登輝總統發表「特殊國與國關係」之後，兩岸首度相會於正式國際會議場合。