In the past two years, headlines such as these have been continuously appearing in local newspapers and magazines. Not only have the "weak and brittle" small and medium enterprises been moving in droves to mainland China and Southeast Asia, even the rock-solid transnational corporations are letting out the word that their capital will go elsewhere because of environmental disputes, or the rising costs of land and labor.
近兩年來，類似的標題總在報章雜誌上不斷出現，不僅「輕薄短小」的中小企業紛紛移廠至大陸及東南亞，就連一向根盤穩固的跨國企業，也因環保抗爭或勞工、土地成本日昂，頻頻傳出撤資出走的消息。