However, with the decline of traditional Taiwanese labor-intensive manufacturing industries in the 1980s, the heady days of Wanhua's ready-made clothing industry disappeared. On top of that, with the computerization of the printing process, the China Times had far less subcontracting work than in the past.
但隨著 80 年代末期，台灣傳統製造業衰退、工廠外移，萬華成衣業榮景不再；而印刷數位化後，也讓中國時報無法像過去般提供大量工作機會。