The leader of the group, village official Liao Hsueh-tang, says that after the earthquake two years ago, Chungliao Rural Township received a great deal of help in the form of money and materials from all kinds of people in Taipei. Even the shovels they brought with them this time were bought with funds provided by Taipei City Government for digging irrigation channels.
帶頭的村里幹事廖學堂說，兩年前中寮鄉接受過台北各界財力、物力的大力支援，這次鄉民們手拿的鋤頭，就是先前台北巿資助他們開發水圳的款項購買的。