But of the several large domestic business groups which have collapsed since October of last year, most were primarily property developers. And with the Asian financial crisis dragging on and Taiwan's trade surplus dipping to a mere US $ 6 billion or so last year, a 10-year low, no one knows quite when the economy will recover.
無奈去年十月以來，國內大型財團紛傳倒閉，其中多數是以建築業為本業起家的；加上亞洲金融風暴的陰影籠罩，去年外貿出超僅僅六十多億美元，創下十多年來的新低，景氣復甦可謂遙遙無期。