For the past thirty years, the emphasis of coastal land-use policy in Taiwan has been on development of reclaimed land. There was no effort at management wherever there was no profit to be made, and no effort was devoted to a coastal basic law.
過去卅多年來，台灣的海岸土地使用，可以說都只強調海埔地的開發，開發不成就放棄管理，從未在海岸基本法上著力。