Some 425,000 babies were born on Taiwan in 1976--55,000 more than in the previous year, or 30 times the normal growth rate--giving the family planning center, which was set up twenty years ago, its first taste of what a dragon year can be like.
民國六十五年，台灣地區一共有四十二萬四千個嬰兒出生，比前一年多出五萬六千人，較正常的成長率增加了卅倍，讓成立廿年的家計中心頭一次領教了「龍年」的威力。