As Michael Hsiao, the conference's host and chairman of the Institute for National Development, notes: "Over the last decade or so, Taiwan has established the Taiwanese economic model in the third world, and extolled that achievement to the world. But two years ago, Taiwan's economy contracted for the first time and unemployment began to rise."
「過去數十年，台灣在第三世界樹立台灣經濟模型，成為值得向世界宣揚的驕傲，然而過去兩年，台灣經濟陷入成長率下降、失業率攀升的困境。」