Vietnam only began to open up to the outside world in the 1990s. Chu describes it as "currently the only country in Southeast Asia where the investment climate appears to be developing in a positive direction." Most Taiwan investment in Vietnam tends to be in the labor-intensive manufacturing sector.
越南在一九九○年代對外開放，「是目前東南亞國家中，投資情況看起來比較正向發展的地方，」朱家一說，目前台商在越南的投資偏重勞力密集的製造業。