Taiwan investment in the Chinese mainland and trade across the Taiwan Straits constitute the core of development of economy and trade across the Straits.

Generally,the current situation of trade across the Taiwan Straits is characterized by the continuous expansions of trading scales,the transformation from indirect to direct trade,the increasing dependency on trade,the development of the trade structure towards plurality and complementation.

The main reason which affects the regular exchange of the cross-straits economy and trade is the problems in "three direct links" and the Taiwanese authority s insistence on signing FTA in the structure of WTO which seriously violate "one China" princi.