At one time, 46 loudspeakers from this system on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen broadcasted messages towards the People’s Republic of China. The distance to the Chinese mainland is only about two kilometers. Following their defeat in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the Kuomintang, which fled to Taiwan, aimed to reclaim the Chinese mainland from the strategically positioned island of Kinmen. Both sides engaged in mutual bombardments until the 1970s.