Nien Chen-yu, director of the department of customs and documents, points out that the "Cultural Resource Preservation Act" didn't go into effect until 1982 and work began restoring the old street in Lukang in 1986, making the project the first of its kind in Taiwan.
禮俗文獻課課長粘振裕指出，七十一年「文化資產保存法」才實施，七十五年鹿港首開風氣之先，修老街的時候，「大家也都不懂」。