Under pressure from industrialization, all of the basic manufacturing done by Taiwan's towns and villages has begun to disappear. Most of these areas have neither the means to industrialize and urbanize nor the need.
台灣鄉村地區的各種初級產業，在工業化的衝擊之下，已經逐漸沒落，大部分的鄉鎮又未必有條件走向工業化、都市化的道路，而且也不必要。