Hsia points out that although the Governor-General's Residence was located in Taipei during Japanese rule, in the agricultural Taiwan of that period, the Japanese colonial administration was concerned about rice and sugar production over the entire Western Plain and treated all the cities about the same.
夏鑄九指出，日據時代的總督府固然設在台北，然而在「農業台灣」的殖民定位下，日本政府對盛產糖與米的西部平原，基本上是一體對待的。