A number of leading businessmen, including Wang Yung-tsai of Formosa Plastics and Wang Ling-lin of the China Rebar Group, expressed "enthusiastic expectations" toward Siew. They felt that Siew would be able to use his trade and economics experience to inject new life into substantive economic relations across the Taiwan Strait.
幾位工商業龍頭，包括台塑集團的王永在、力霸集團的王令麟等人，都表示「熱切期待」，認為以他的財經背景，應可對兩岸經貿實質關係注入新血。