For small and medium enterprises, in August stock certificates were redeemed at a rate of 4.6 per thousand. The balance sheet performance of most companies on the market was also not hopeful: from the reports of the first half of the year, of the 192 companies on the board, 33 reported losses outright.
雖然外在環境並不樂觀，但歷經風浪，以勤奮與靈活打下外銷江山的國內企業，已再發揮應變能力，從節流著手，重新整軍，先站穩腳步，再圖開源。為了節流，企業的第一個做法是節省人事開支，例如裁掉效率不高的部門與人員，遇缺不補，工作由其他同事分擔。