Stunning scenery While the highway was being pushed through the mountains, Chiang Ching-kuo penned an essay entitled "Spending the Night in a Place With No Name," in which he described an evening among convicts working on the road and depicted the hardships of the project.
在中橫公路開拓期間，當年任職退除役官兵就業輔導委員會主委的蔣經國先生，即有感而發的創作一篇散文「投宿在一個沒有名字的地方」，記述了中橫開拓的艱難，及他與罪犯工人相處一晚的過往，說明了當年犯人參與工事的景況。