Nearly 400,000 Taiwanese currently live on the Chinese mainland at the end of September this year, including more than 18,000 who have settled down, according to the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, or cabinet.
There are about 270,000 "cross-Strait marriages" made between people from the mainland and Taiwan, said Dai Xiaofeng, director of the exchange bureau, part of the State Council office.
Up to the end of September, Taiwan people made more than 45.83 million visits to the mainland, and mainlanders made more than 1.56 million visits to the island, said Dai in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.
"More than 46 million visits to the mainland, twice the number of the Taiwan population -- 23 million -- will be made by Taiwan people by the end of this year," Dai said, adding 1.6 million visits to Taiwan would be made by people from the mainland.
Source: Xinhua
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