Two years later, during her second semester of seventh grade, Lin and her family were forced to move out of the mine's housing. The company gave the reason that the government was expropriating the land for urban development.
兩年之後，國中一年級下學期，林秀琴一家搬出礦區工寮，據她表示，政府以都市開發為由，收回土地。