前些年,台湾经济曾经被西方某些人看作是亚洲“四只小老虎”之一(另三只是香港、新加坡、南朝鲜)。从六十年代中期起,台湾经济的发展速度确实是比较快的,工农业和交通、服务等行业的生产总值从一九六五年的二十八亿多美元增加到一九八○年的三百八十亿美元,以自给为主的农业经济已经转变成为以出口为主的加工工业经济。台湾当局对此颇为自得,把它作为“偏安”一隅的“资本”。 In previous years, Taiwan’s economy was once considered by some in the West as one of the “four little tigers” in Asia (the other three were Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea). Since the mid-1960s, the pace of economic growth in Taiwan has indeed been relatively rapid. The gross output value of industries such as agriculture, industry, transportation and services has risen from more than 2.8 billion U.S. dollars in 1965 to 1980 Of the 38 billion U.S. dollars, the self-sufficiency agricultural economy has been transformed into an export-oriented processing industry economy. The Taiwan authorities are quite content with it as the “capital” in the corner of “partial security.”