After his medical laboratory was destroyed, Teng characteristically reacted by throwing his energies into the task of rebuilding the local community. He has kept himself busy preparing posters, organizing a community newspaper, and establishing the "New Puli Community Development Foundation."
地震後，醫檢所毀了，他卻沒閒著，一頭栽入家鄉的重建工作，寫標語、辦社區報、成立「新埔里造鎮文教基金會」，忙得暈頭轉向。