"Previously, when driving down Yenping North Road, all you'd pass was green fields of vegetables--it was beautiful," says Hsu A-hsueh, head of the planning group of the Taipei city government's Department of City Planning, who has been coming to Shetzu for years on inspections. "Since 1988 the factories have been sprouting up one after another."
「以前沿著延平北路下行，一路都是綠油油的菜園，非常美麗」，為了研擬社子島開發計畫，多年前就開始到社子島實地訪察的台北市政府都計處規劃科股長許阿雪說：「七十七年以後，工廠就一間間冒了出來。」