According to Chen Lung-chi, who only plucked up courage two years ago to resign from the post he had held for more than 20 years, the multinational company he worked for started to go downhill after 1978 and won fewer and fewer engineering contracts, while those it did win were hampered by government procedures and delay.
兩年前才忍痛從服務廿多年的崗位離職的陳隆吉指出，一九七八年以後，他服務的跨國公司營運日差，能接到的工程案子愈來愈少，接到的案子又因各種行政程序遲遲不能完工而橫生枝節。