Changes soon followed: President Chiang Ching-kuo announced the lifting of martial law in July of that year, and began permitting visits to the mainland in November, reopening cross-strait travel for the first time in 38 years. In the first year, half a million people traveled from Taiwan to the mainland to visit family and for sightseeing.
蔣經國先生在同年 7 月宣布解嚴，11 月開放返鄉探親，兩岸交流的大門終於在緊閉 38 年後打開；探親連同觀光，第一年就有 50 萬人潮湧進大陸。