A decade or more later, with the rapid development of greater Taipei, the middle reaches of all three rivers gradually became heavily populated, especially in Nankang and Neihu, inside Taipei proper, on the middle reaches of the Keelung.
十幾年來大台北發展極速，三條河中游逐漸住滿了人，尤其基隆河中游的南港、內湖屬台北市境內，人口增加最快。