In his capacity as an invited guest to the congress, People First Party chairman James Soong said that the ROC exists in reality as well as in name, and that Taiwan's most pressing concern is "rectifying people's hearts" rather than "rectifying names."
以貴賓身分應邀出席的親民黨主席宋楚瑜則強調，「中華民國名存實也在！」「台灣當前最急切的是『正心』，而非『正名』」。