In spite of the enormous growth in Taiwan's industrial output, when you factor out the cost of intermediate inputs you discover that our value-added isn't high at all. The reason is that other nations still control key technologies and marketing channels. Therefore, Taiwan generates only slim profits even though it is the world's number-one producer of many different products.
台灣雖然產量大幅成長，但扣除中間投入成本後，附加價值卻不高，這表示關鍵技術、行銷通路仍掌握在他國手中，以致於我國雖有不少產品世界占有率高居第一，但卻僅能創造微薄利潤。