For a community to truly thrive, says Pai, it needs to have its political, economic, educational, cultural, and religious sides in harmony. With Pai's leadership, Lihsiangkuo has gone from a sparsely populated eyesore to an independently thriving township, leading some to jokingly call him the town's "go-to guy."
白錫旼指出，社區要活化，政經、教育、文化、宗教都必須融入，從早期零星人口到現在可以獨立成一個「東海村」，有人開玩笑地說他簡直就是一個超級大樁腳。