In mid-August, when President Lee Teng-hui addressed the National Assembly, he clearly expressed his concern and dissatisfaction with the situation of high capital outflow along with low willingness to invest in Taiwan. In that address, he identified several companies by name as making "inappropriate" investments in mainland China, of which the plan by Formosa Plastics to build a power plant in Fujian was identified as one.
八月中旬，李總統在國民大會的一席話，明白表示對資金大舉外流、國內投資意願不振的憂心與不滿，同時點名幾家赴大陸進行「不當投資」的企業，其中台塑的福建漳州電廠計畫赫然在列。