However, after the opening up of postal links with mainland China a few years ago, the ROC flag was a little too politically sensitive for the stamps, so it was replaced by the light-house design in 1989.
直到近年兩岸交流頻繁，郵件往來間國旗郵票顯得有些敏感，才在民國七十八年發行燈塔郵票取代。