Under these circumstances, in which people have been leaving but none can enter, by now Lintienshan only has about 100 registered households, with only about 70 households in fact living in the town. Moreover, most of these are elderly retired forestry workers, and there are very few young men in the prime of life like Chuang Ming-yi.
在只出不進的情況下，目前林田山的戶籍數只剩區區一百多家，實際居住的更不足七十家，且大部分是高齡老邁的退休員工，像他這樣四十多歲的中壯年少之又少。