Before the lifting of the ban on new newspapers, there were 29 Chinese-language papers in Taiwan. A few years later there were more than 200. By the end of 1994 the figure had fallen to 126.
報禁開放前，台灣的中文報紙有二十九家，數年後，一度擴增到二百多家，到去年的統計，針對一般讀者，每日發行的報紙只剩下二十五家。