"1963 to 1980 was when Taiwan's economy really took off," says Yu Tzong-shian. "It was also in this period that Western countries took notice of the remarkable performance of a group of small East Asian economies, and the term 'four little dragons' was coined for Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong."
「民國五十二年到六十九年，是台灣經濟起飛的年代，也就在這段期間，歐美國家注意到東亞這些小國的搶眼表現，開始用『四小龍』來形容台、韓、星、港」，于宗先指出。