But today, not only has the NT dollar appreciated, and there is a shortage of labor power, the domestic market has also greatly liberalized. If no effort is made to change the MIT image, "Not only can't we survive in the international market, we can't even retain the domestic market," argues Lin Mao-chung, deputy director of the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
但今天，不但台幣升值、人力短缺，國內市場又大幅開放，若再不努力改變 MIT 形象，「沒有自創的品牌，不但在國際市場活不下去，連國內市場都會不保」，經濟部工業局副局長林茂宗表示。