The preparatory committee has also been holding 25 public hearings in cities and counties all over Taiwan, but plans for one overseas died when the two opposition parties joined ranks against it. In this respect, the NDC is also different from the National Affairs Conference, which solicited the opinions of overseas Chinese.
籌委會並將在全省各縣市召開二十五場次的座談會，海外座談會一案卻遭在野黨聯手夾殺，這也和當年國是會曾赴海外徵詢僑胞意見做法有別。