"The Republic of China has already passed the stage where its comparative advantage lies in a cheap labor supply," says Wu Hui-lin of the Chung-hua Institution for Economic Research. "We've moved into a period where technologically advanced and capital-intensive industries are more important. For mainland China in the short term to compete with us in the area of heavy industry would just be matching their weak point against our strongest."
「基本上我們已走過了以廉價勞力取勝的階段，到了發展技術與資本密集工業的時期」，中華經濟研究院副研究員吳惠林說：「因此，短期內若中共想在鋼鐵工業上與我們一較高下，等於以他們的弱點來對抗我們的強點，並不划算。」