In the past five years the industrial growth rate (except for 1985) has always ex ceeded the rate of overall economic growth; but last year it reached only four percent, below the overall growth rate of seven percent.
我國一向以工業帶動經濟成長，近五年的工業成長（除了民國七十四年之外），都超出整個經濟成長的比率，而去年卻只達到百分之四、遠低於百分之七的經濟成長率。