Chen says that Subic Bay is becoming a better and better place to do business, noting that three large factories went into the neighboring Japanese industrial park just last year. Moreover, a number of projects which will be of great benefit to investors are currently under way, including a highway connecting Subic Bay to the industrial parks around Clark Airport and a project which will complete a container pier on reclaimed land by 2005.
他指出，蘇比克灣周邊的條件越來越好，鄰近日本所屬的工業區去年進駐三家大廠；填海造地建貨櫃碼頭即將在二○○五年完工；連接北呂宋、中呂宋的快速道路將連結蘇比克、克拉克等工業區，這些對投資廠商而言都是「大利多」。