With the county's large territory and the ethnic diversity of its population, it can be hard to implement the work of county governance. The most pressing problems are the exodus of people away from farming and the decline of industry, and it can be forecast that Taiwan's eventual accession to the WTO will create further competitive threats to local products.
土地廣、族群複雜，縣政推展不易；而迫在眉睫的危機，是農業人口流失、產業沒落，以及可預見的台灣加入世界關稅貿易協定後，對本地產品造成的競爭威脅。