The migration of traditional industries to Southeast Asia and mainland China eliminated hundreds of thousands of jobs in Taiwan. A small portion of the people thus displaced found other employment in the manufacturing sector, while some others got jobs in the new service sector.
傳統產業外移到東南亞、大陸，釋放出的數十萬名勞工，少數回流到生產線，部分則被新興服務業吸收。