过去20年来，亚洲经济繁荣主要由地区内制造业联系推动，中间产品和零部件由亚洲内部提供，组装成最终产品后出口发达市场，这让该地区获得了“亚洲工厂”的名声。
Over the last two decades, Asia’s economic boom was largely driven by intra-regional manufacturing linkages, in which intermediate goods and parts were sourced from within Asia to be assembled into final goods for export to developed markets – earning the region the moniker “factory Asia.”