The Taiwanese economy began growing rapidly in the latter half of the 1970s, and people with degrees in things like political science or literature went into business in droves. Trading companies, in particular, had more orders coming in than they could handle. Many of Taiwan's biggest corporations today got their start back then on a shoestring.
一九七○年代的下半期，台灣經濟開始快速成長，學政治的、念文學的，都紛紛投入商場，尤其是貿易商，訂單接不完，許多今天已是殷實企業的大公司就是在那段時間以五萬元起家的貿易青年。