But in the last two years Taiwan's economic growth has slowed as a result of the world energy crisis and the plateau reached by labor intensive industry.
然而近兩年，經濟與工業的成長率已有日漸減緩之勢，究其原因，全球性的能源危機所帶給海島型經濟的壓迫固為原因之一，勞力密集工業發展進入「高原期」，也是不可忽視的因素。