"According to statistics and local records, very few farmers were debt-free," Wu says. Furthermore, the processing and exporting businesses that had started to flourish in the 1960s were attracting more and more young people from farming areas, contributing to the "graying" of farming communities.
「根據統計資料和鄉親的印證，當時沒有背負債務的農家少之又少，」吳晟表示，1960 年代興起的加工出口區，快速、大量吸納了農村子弟，進一步導致農村老化。