Liao built his business on that money, and believes that no matter what kind of success Taiwanese businesspeople achieve abroad, it counts for nothing unless they bring it back home. He himself began thinking of reinvesting in Taiwan a number of years ago, but the time wasn't right-there was too much cross-strait tension and the government was hostile to Taiwanese businesses that had invested in the mainland.
廖萬隆認為，台商在海外成就再怎麼耀眼，若不能衣錦還鄉，一切都等於零，好幾年前他便打算回台灣投資，但因當時兩岸關係緊張、政府對台商也充滿敵意、處處設限而作罷。