Industry insiders estimate that the individual travel program will bring in 2 billion yuan, or about 307 million U.S. dollars in tourism revenues for Taiwan within half a year.

业内人士估计，个人游项目会在半年内为台湾带来20亿人民币，约合3.07亿美元的旅游收入。

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For hundreds of years, this painting changed hands a lot of times. But I know that now half of this painting is kept in the museum in Hangzhou and the other half is in the museum in Taiwan.

几百年来，这幅画辗转流失，但现在我知道，一半放在杭州博物馆，一半放在台北故宫博物院，我希望两半幅画什么时候能合成一幅画。

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The benchmarks are dominated by very mature sectors of the economy with two-thirds all in the BRICs, South Korea and Taiwan and about half of that in the energy, materials and financials sectors.

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These stocks are also appealing because of a possible U.S. recovery in the second half of this year and the likelihood of declining interest rates in Taiwan.

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Taiwan's economic miracle was helped by the mass of money that the fleeing Nationalists brought with them, by the infrastructure already in place in the island after a half-century of Japanese colonisation, by an American presence underwriting Taiwan's defence, and by ready markets in both Japan and the United States.

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