As part of the heritage and life experience shared by the Chinese race, promoting the use of abacus remains a fundamental responsibility of all Chinese people.  The Taiwan Chamber of Commerce has since 1960 begun to conduct exchange and mutual visits with major abacus provincial associations across Mainland China through the China Zhusuan Association.  And over a decade’s time, more than the routine staging of the “Cross-strait Abacus Demo Contest”, and the “Cross-strait Abacus Correspondence Contest”, and there are also several jointly staged academic forums that help to introduce Mainland’s “abacus prevalence education”, the “Yi Co Chin”, and “the skill of stirring beads with both hands” to Taiwan.  At the same time, it also helps to promote Taiwan’s mental arithmetic classes that fit today’s industry and commercialized society and the franchise promotion to the mainland region that serve to compensate what each other lacks and to jointly excel the abacus computing enterprise.  In near term, the association is working with the China Zhusuan Association in streamlining a systematic cross-strait abacus judgeship and mental arithmetic certification program in anticipation of prolonging the cross-strait abacus- promoting endeavor.

A group photo taken at the first World Association of Abacus and Mental Arithmetic rally with Chairman Tze Hai-bin(7th from right), vice Chairman Yeh Tseng-Yi (5th from right) et al accompanying top-prize.

The 12th Cross-strait Abacus Academic Exchange 2003 staged in Liaoning province, China has been billed as a grand annual event where abacus elites gather under one roof.

Jilin province Abacus Association vice Chairman Chen Chi-shan et al call on Taiwan between Dec. 17 and 24 in 2003.

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Abacus Association Chairman Chao Hung-ting et al in an entourage of 12 call on Taiwan between Oct. and Nov. 4 in 2003.

The correspondence abacus/mental calculation contest jointly staged by the Taiwan Chamber of Commerce and China Zhusuan Association has garnered widespread cross-strait responses with entrants exceeding 600,000 every year.

The association amasses local learning characteristics and methodology by fully utilizing the opportunities of filed visits to Mainland’s Jilin, Beijing, Jejiang, Shanghai that could be mirrored in Taiwan.