Apart from fulfilling its national mission, the Songshan Tobacco Factory came out of the "industrial village" movement that was in vogue during the Japanese era, and which still seems quite progressive today.
松山菸廠的光榮感除了來自家國使命，還源於日治時期已慣常採用、今日看來卻仍然十分進步的「工業村」規劃。