"The most important reason is that wages in Southeast Asia are almost one tenth of Taiwan's," says Chi-chuan Hung, president of the Chung Hua Association, an ROC businessmen's group based in the Philippines. For labor-intensive industries, that's a major attraction.
「最重要的是，泰、馬等國的工資，幾乎只有台灣的十分之一」，旅菲的中華協會理事長洪啟川說，這對勞力密集的工業而言，是最大誘因。