A tale of two islands Politics first started forcing people to leave Kinmen for Taiwan in 1949, after the Kuomintang government retreated to Taiwan from the mainland and made Kinmen and Matsu its front line of defense.
兩地懷鄉金門人因政治因素遷台，是從民國三十八年國民政府播遷來台以金馬地區為反共的最前線後開始。