Ever since, Kaohsiung has been heavily tinted with heavy industry and military uses. Inheriting its foundations and traditions from the Japanese era, Kaohsiung continued to have the onerous duty of being a center for electrical power, petrochemicals, iron and steel, and processing.
台灣光復後，高雄仍承續日據時代工業城市的基礎與特色，一直肩負著提供電力能源、石化原料、鋼鐵工廠和加工場所的任務。