But the cost of labor rose and land acquisition became difficult, and in the 1980s labor intensive industries began to move overseas, in particular, to the mainland and other neighboring SE Asian nations.
然而在勞工成本高漲、土地取得不易下，勞力密集的行業在七十年代紛紛外移，尤其移向鄰近的東南亞與大陸。