Political and economic change In fact, the mainland's economic reforms, begun in 1978, and Taiwan's political reforms, begun in 1986, are the most revolutionary results of modernization in Chinese history.
其實，大陸自一九七八年開始的經濟改革與台灣自一九八六年以來的政治改革，都是中國現代史上最具革命性的現代化成果。