Meanwhile manufacturing has suffered a series of blows: economic change and the rise of environmental and labor consciousness, and disappointing investment.
反觀包括營建、製造、礦業、水電、煤氣等的工業，卻飽受經濟變動和環保、勞工意識高漲等打擊，大企業投資受挫，佔台灣工業百分之九十以上的中小企業，則在成本邊緣苦苦掙扎。