In 2001, AUO realized it wasn't cost effective to have a back-end component plant in Taiwan with a large workforce. After several months, a location was settled on for AUO's plant at Suzhou in China's Jiangsu Province, and the facilities were systematically relocated there. Production began ten months after ground was broken.
2001 年，友達察覺到，面板產業中需要大量人力的後段模組廠在台灣生產已不敷成本，幾個月後，友達蘇州廠選址確定，遷廠規劃也有條不紊地展開，新廠動土 10 個月後即開始量產。