But the landowners didn't know that according to the Mining Act Asia Cement could, if it wanted to, lease the land in perpetuity regardless of whether the landowners agreed or not. Neither did they know why Asia Cement the next year obtained the letters from all of them waiving their land rights.
但是地主們並不知道，依照礦業法，不論地主同不同意，只要亞泥願意，它將可以無限期續租這塊土地；他們也不知道為何亞泥竟在第二年取得了全部地主的土地權利拋棄書。