One major reason for the rise in the number of people in Taiwan practicing ch'i-kung is the introduction of mainland Chinese thinking on the subject. This has given those who hesitated between the two established approaches a new way of accepting ch'i-kung--as a science.
這兩年台灣氣功人口激增，有一個重要原因是，大陸的氣功觀念輸入，提供了原本游離在上述兩者之間的人，一個接受氣功的新管道。