The opening of the Cross-Island Highway in i960 enabled Lishan, or Pear Mountain, to transform itself from a remote and isolated location in central Taiwan to the island's leading producer of temperate-zone fruits and vegetables.
隨著中部橫貫公路的開發，加上地處風景精華區，它吸引了絡繹不絕的觀光客。當梨山培養出溫帶果蔬之後，它立即成為王冠上的鑽石，沾上邊的都聚了不少財富。