During this period Taiwan's economy has developed uninterruptedly and at a brisk clip, from the policy of "using agriculture to support industry" and the import restrictions of the 1950s, to the export processing of the 1960s, the Ten Major Construction Projects of the 1970s, the liberalization and internationalization of the 1980s, and the burgeoning IT industry of the 1990s.
從民國四十年代的農業扶持工業及限制進口、五十年代的加工出口、六十年代的十大建設、七十年代的自由化與國際化，乃至於八十年代的資訊工業崛起，台灣的經濟發展腳步一直邁著大步，未曾停歇。