Y. T. Chen says that small companies draw big ones and Taiwanese ones draw foreign ones to China: "If the methods to attract business are becoming more and more flexible, it's largely thanks to the advice of Taiwanese businesspeople. Taiwanese businesses have been attracting foreign investors for a long time. Chinese officials therefore almost always follow their advice.
以小引大，以台引外，「現在的各地招商手段愈來愈靈活，其實跟台商的建言有關，」陳宥廷指出，「台商長期引來外資，讓主事者對台商的判斷幾乎言聽計從。」