On February 20, President Lee and more than 400 officials and elected representatives at the central government level filled the main assembly hall in the presidential building to listen to an "outsider" from the private sector--Acer's chairman of the board, Stan Shih--report on the prospects of the ROC's high-technology industries.
二月廿日，李登輝總統、中央政府官員、中央民意代表、各政黨代表等四百餘人，坐滿了總統府大禮堂，由唯一的「外人」﹘﹘來自民間資訊工業界的施振榮，報告對我國高科技工業的展望。