These improvements and their realization in county government "made Sun Yat-sen realize further the necessity of reforming national politics, and was influential in his later thinking about local self-government," concludes Li Po-hsin.
這些鄉政的改良與實踐，「使孫中山進一步認識到改革全國政治的必要性，對他日後地方自治的思想，也產生影響」，李伯新說。