Easing of Restrictions on Mainland Chinese Business Visits to Taiwan

2009-01-22 15:30:02

In order to promote the normalization of cross-strait economic and trade activities, the Investment Commission of the MOEA has eased restrictions on persons from the mainland China area coming to Taiwan to engage in business or economic and trade related activities. With immediate effect, the limit on the total yearly number of visits to Taiwan by mainland Chinese economic and trade related specialists that each applicant organization can apply for is increased to 200; and in the cases of transnational corporations’ mainland area suppliers, authorized distributors, and chain store proprietors, no limit is placed on the number of such visits for the purpose of participating in business meetings.

Previously, each applicant organization was subject to a total yearly limit of 30 on the number of such visits. If transnational corporations needed to hold business meetings in Taiwan, they were subject to restrictions on the qualifications and number of persons from the mainland whom they could invite to the meetings, and only the staff of their subsidiaries in the mainland could be brought to Taiwan without numerical restriction. In consideration of the needs of cross-strait exchanges, the Investment Commission recently amended the Directions on Conducting the Review and Approval of Applications for Mainland Area Economic and Trade Specialists to Visit Taiwan for Economic and Trade Related Activities and the supplementary provisions to Article 6 of the Regulations Governing Permission for People from the Mainland Area to Come to Taiwan to Engage in Business Activities. The amendments are aimed at better matching the practical needs of cross-strait economic and trade interchange, while at the same time encouraging multinational corporations to hold international and regional business meetings in Taiwan, so as to spur the development of Taiwan’s MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions) and related industries.


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