In 2013, Taiwan's economy is in a downturn, and the growth rates in the first and the second quarter were 1.62% and 2.49%, making the first half of the year grows 2.06% totally. In the first three quarter of 2013, import and export and private consumption growth rates were low. Taiwan's investment environment is still quite attractive to enterprises and manufacturers. Because of continuing climb of government's fiscal deficit and compression of public construction funds, the annual economic growth rate is estimated to be 2.01% for 2013, with an increase of 0.69 percentage points in 2012. In 2014, the growth rate of the economy is estimated to be 3.21%, 1.20 percentage points higher than that in 2013. <<