The effort to attract Taiwanese investment into Suzhou, combined with the natural clustering tendency of Taiwanese firms, means that in many cases the companies up and down the supply chain are all Taiwanese. Suzhou's indigenous enterprises are still relatively small-scale, and are thought to be three to five years away from breaking into the ring of Taiwanese firms and competing with them.
由於蘇州招商積極，台商的「群聚」特性在此地分外凸顯，上下游供應商也好，競爭者也好，碰來碰去往往都是台商自己人；蘇州本地企業規模還小，離打進台商的圈子還有個三、五年的差距。