自我国改革开放以来，海峡两岸贸易投资关系经过二十多年的发展已经有了相当规模。到目前为止，台湾同胞在大陆投资办企业已近5万家，合同台资500多亿美元，实际利用台资300多亿美元。台商对祖国大陆投资的迅速发展，也带动了两岸贸易的发展。祖国大陆方面的统计显示，截至2001 Since the reform and opening up of our country, the trade and investment relations across the Taiwan Strait have enjoyed a considerable scale after more than two decades of development. So far, compatriots in Taiwan have invested 50,000 enterprises in mainland China, with a contractual capital of over 50 billion U.S. dollars and Taiwan’s actual use of over 30 billion U.S. dollars. The rapid growth of Taiwanese investment in the motherland’s mainland has also boosted the development of cross-Strait trade. Statistics from the mainland show that as of 2001