以促进海峡两岸的交往、发展双向交流、实现中国和平统一为宗旨的大陆海峡两岸关系协会于1991年12月16日在北京成立。这是继1990年11月台湾海峡交流基金会成立之后,两岸民间团体对口组织的正式形成。它标志着两岸良性互动关系进入了新的阶段,象征着两岸交流“务实时代的来临”。 The Mainland China Association of Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, set up in Beijing on December 16, 1991, with the purpose of promoting exchanges across the Taiwan Strait and developing two-way exchanges and realizing the goal of peaceful reunification of China. This is the official formation of the counterpart organizations of non-governmental organizations on both sides of the strait following the establishment of the Taiwan Straits Exchange Foundation in November 1990. It marks the benign interaction between the two sides of the Strait that has entered a new phase, symbolizing the advent of pragmatic times in cross-Strait exchanges.