Minister Without Portfolio Li Kuoting this May hosted a special conference on "Very Large Scale Integration [VLSI] Technology Systems and Their Uses." In his opening statement he noted that between 1979 and 1986, the global income in the area of electronic equipment went from US $ 100 billion to over twice that amount. Moreover, in many countries employment in the electronics industry far exceeds that of other industries.
行政院政務委員李國鼎先生，在今年五月召開的「一九八七年國際超大型積體電路技術系統暨應用研討會」開幕致詞中指出，自一九七九年至一九八六年，全世界電子設備的年收入由大約一千億美元，迅速成長到超過二千億美元；而在許多國家中，電子工業所雇用的人員數目，已遠超過其它工業所雇用的人員。