One thing followed another in a seemingly endless succession. European and American orders shrank following the explosion of the US subprime mortgage crisis in late 2007, and Taiwanese firms along the Chinese coast began going under or relocating to the south and the west in 2008. As the financial crisis went global, many Taiwanese businesses found themselves in dire straits.
屋漏偏逢連夜雨，2007 年底美國次貸危機爆發後，歐美訂單萎縮，2008 開年後即陸續傳出沿海台商歇業、倒閉，或者往南往西遷移消息，其後全球金融海嘯席捲，台商的慘況只能用哀鴻遍野形容。