At the same time, more than 100 victims of the quake who had lived in the Tsunlung Building in Fengyuan, Taichung County, went back to occupy the site of the building. Apart from meditating, lighting lanterns and praying, they also signed a manifesto urging the government to track down embezzled reconstruction funds and to raise the business tax for banks that aren't cooperating with government policy.
但另一方面，台中縣豐原市尊龍大樓上百名受災戶，也於震災屆滿週年之夜重返已拆除的大樓原址，除了靜坐點燈祈福之外，也發表重建宣言，要求政府歸還遭到濫用的捐款，並提高未能配合政策銀行的營業稅。