两岸经贸关系自９０年代初以来发展迅速，相互依存度逐步提高。目前，两岸经贸关系已发展到一个新阶段，台湾众多大型企业开始投资大陆。李登辉为在政治上谋取与大陆所谓“对等政治实体”地位，在经济上欲确保与大陆的所谓“安全距离”，提出“亚太营运中心以大陆为复地的论调 The cross-Strait economic and trade relations have developed rapidly since the early 1990s and their interdependence has been gradually increasing. At present, the cross-Strait economic and trade relations have reached a new stage. Many large-scale enterprises in Taiwan have started to invest in the mainland. In his political pursuit of “political equivalence” with the so-called “equivalent political entity” in the Mainland, Lee Teng-hui wants to ensure the so-called “security distance” with the mainland economically and put forward the “reposition of the Asia-Pacific operating center on the mainland as a whole.”