Moreover, at the end of the Japanese era, Japan began to put even more emphasis on Kaohsiung as a base for its advances into the South Pacific. This gave the impetus for Kaohsiung later developing into an "industrial port city."
到了日據末期的大東亞戰爭時期，日本政府更將高雄地區做為遠征南太平洋的「南進」基地，建立了高雄「工業化港都」的雛形。