Opinion Poll on Cross-Strait Relations

Opinion Poll on Cross-Strait Relations

Source: Mainland Affairs Council

September 23, 2010

1.     Overall viewpoints on cross-Strait relations

More amiable	51.9%
More tense	10.2%
No change	30.5%

2.     Do you think that cross-Strait exchanges are progressing too fast, just right, or too slowly?

Just right	40.3%
Too fast	37.5%
Too slow	13.2%

3.     Stance on status quo, reunification, independence

Maintaining the status quo in the broadest sense	86.2%	Maintain the status quo, and then reunify with the Mainland or seek independence	34.6%
		Maintain the status quo forever	30.5%

4.     The Mainland’s treatment of our government

Unfriendly	47.5%
Friendly	34%

5.     The Mainland’s treatment of our people

Unfriendly	43.1%
Friendly	39.9%

6.     Viewpoints on the openness for the Mainland individual tourists

Support gradually allowing Mainland individual tourists to visit Taiwan in the future	59.7%
Oppose gradually allowing Mainland individual tourists to visit Taiwan in the future	31.5%

Source: http://www.mac.gov.tw/public/Attachment/09211884354.pdf

The poll was conducted by the Election Study Center of National Chengchi University from September 1 to 5, with 1,072 people successfully surveyed.  The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 3.1 % with a 95 % confidence interval.

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