The initial enthusiastic response was overshadowed by the 1979 Formosa Incident in Kaohsiung, but as Taiwan's rapid economic development in the 1980s swelled the ranks of the middle classes, all kinds of political and non-political social movements gathered strength, and organizations such as Chai Sung-lin's Consumers 'Foundation and Li Yuan-chen's Awakening Foundation came into being.
八○年代，台灣經濟起飛後，中產階級逐漸興起，各種政治及非政治性的社會運動蓬勃展開，如柴松林的「消費者文教基金會」、李元貞的「婦女新知基金會」成立。