A national park has been established there, the first-ever national park based primarily on local culture. New legislation has been passed to aid development on Taiwan's offshore islands. None of this could have happened before 1992, when martial law was at long last lifted in Kinmen. Yet, even today, when most people think of Kinmen, they cannot get past its stereotype as a battleground.
近年來曾以兩岸小三通、國家公園、離島建設條例等新聞議題備受矚目的金門島，自民國八十一年便已脫下戰袍，成為內政部第一個成立以文化為主題的國家公園，但一般人想到金門，仍不脫戰地刻板印象。