In recent years, competition from mainland China has stiffened, and mainland factories have cornered the cheap, mass-produced end of the market. But thanks to more than half a century of experience, many international saxophone brands still use Taiwan factories as their principal contract manufacturers, and 12 musical instrument factories remain in Houli.
近年來，在對岸中國大陸競爭下，以量取勝的低價代工已經被大陸取代，然而靠著一甲子以來的經驗累積，台灣目前還是許多國際知名薩克斯風品牌主要的代工廠之一，至今，依然還有 12 家樂器工廠聚集在這個音樂之鄉。