On this day, 37 years ago, November 14, 1988 (October 6, 1988, the lunar calendar), Taiwan issued the first batch of "Travel Permits for Entering Taiwan." On November 14, 1988, Taiwan's "Entry and Exit Administration" issued the first batch of "Taiwan Travel Permits" for four mainland compatriots to visit Taiwan for funerals and medical visits. The person who received the first "Taiwan Travel Permit" was Xu Songlin, 58, from Zhejiang Province. He applied to travel to Taiwan to pay his father's funeral. The rest are applications for visiting the mother's illness. These four people were applied and handled by relatives and friends in Taiwan. Taiwan's "Entry and Exit Administration" issued a copy of the approval notice and the "Travel Permit for Entering Taiwan". It is said that mainland applicants come to Hong Kong with a photocopy of the "Taiwan Entry Travel Permit" and apply to Taiwan's "Zhonghua Travel Agency" based in Hong Kong for a return visa and a statement guaranteeing to leave Taiwan within two months. In this way, they can obtain the original "Taiwan Entry Travel Permit" and go to Taiwan with the original. Since the Taiwan authorities allowed mainland compatriots to visit Taiwan on November 9, there have been 101 applications from the public, including 61 for funerals and 40 for medical visits. The director of Taiwan's "Immigration Administration" said that among the applications, Zheng Junkai, the uncle of Zheng Yanfen, the "Counselor of the Presidential Office", applied for medical visits to Taiwan for his three sons in mainland China, Qian Mu, a 93-year-old Confucian master, applied for medical visits to his daughter in Beijing, and Huang Tianfu, former "legislator" and Huang Xinjie, chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, applied for his older brother in Hangzhou to visit his father, who had been ill for many years. Qian Mu, a 94-year-old Taiwanese Confucian master, finally looked forward to the day of reunion in Taipei with his eldest daughter Qian Yi, who lives in mainland China. As a visiting scholar sent by Tsinghua University to the Netherlands, Qian Yi rushed to Taipei from the Netherlands the same day after receiving a travel permit issued by mainland compatriots to visit Taiwan, becoming the first mainland compatriot to visit Taiwan.