But many residents do not agree with a development model that would integrate Kinmen into Xiamen. "When you consider that Xiamen is after all the most important city in the southern Fujian region, how could Kinmen be anything other than marginalized by Xiamen?"
但也有不少金門人不同意「金廈一體」的發展模式，「若要讓金門的發展和廈門的生活圈融在一起，恐怕要思考到廈門畢竟是大陸閩南地區最重要的城市，金門如何在金廈發展的架構下不被邊緣化？」