Wang Chung-kwei points out that Taiwan, like Singapore and Hong Kong, is a small-sized economic entity with a small domestic market. All three rely on selling their labor and talent to the world, so when physicists were in demand in the world, a large group of people made physics departments their first choice, and now the same thing is happening with electrical engineering, information sciences, and biotechnology.
王叢桂分析，台灣就如同新加坡、香港等小型經濟體，內需市場不大，憑藉的是向世界提供人才與代工，當世界潮流中物理專業吃香時，就會有一群人擠著進物理系為第一志願，同樣的狀況也曾發生在電機、資訊、生化等領域。