2010 Opinion Poll on Cross-Strait Relations

2010 Opinion Poll on Cross-Strait Relations

Source: United Daily News

September 13, 2010

1.     Cross-Strait Relations

	mutually beneficial				Moderate		Tense and competitive
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Average
Society											5.1
Politics											5.2
Economics and Trade											5.5
Military											6.1
Diplomacy											6.3

2.     Future Aspirations in Cross-Strait Relations

Date	Support Taiwan Independence	Maintain the status quo for now, then see what happens later	Maintain the status quo forever	Maintain the status quo, and then reunification with the Mainland	Reunify with Mainland China
2000/7/20	12%	14%	32%	20%	9%
2010/8/26	16%	15%	51%	9%	5%

3.     The people of Taiwan’s impression of the Mainland government

Good	33%
Bad	54%

Positive Impressions		Negative impressions
Efficient	4%	Autocratic	20%
Friendly	4%	Tyrannical	17%
Strong	1%	Undemocratic	4%
Civilized and Progressive	1%	Hypocritical	3%
Pragmatic	1%	Corrupt	3%

The people of Taiwan’s impression of people on the Mainland

Good	38%
Bad	47%

Positive Impressions		Negative impressions
Gentle	5%	Uncivilized	24%
Friendly	2%	Mercantilist	9%
hardworking	1%	Rough	7%
Capable	1%	Selfish	4%
Honest and simple	1%	Nouveau riche	3%

4.     The willingness of the people in Taiwan to go to the Mainland

Go to the Mainland to work	Yes	34%
	No	62%
Create own business on the Mainland	Yes	28%
	No	68%
Allow your children to study on the Mainland	Yes	29%
	No	35%
Move to the Mainland to settle down	Yes	12%
	No	87%

5.     The willingness of different age groups to work in the Mainland

Age	Proportion
20-29	49%
30-39	31%
40-49	33%
Over 50	28%

Note: This poll was conducted from August 20-26 with 1,001 people over 20 years of age surveyed. The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 3.1 % with a 95 % confidence interval.

Source: United Daily News Page A1 and A3

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