Altogether Shanmei has about 400 adults. In the past about two fifths went outside the village to work; if you subtract the number in the civil service, there were about 100 people who had left the village for outside employment.
山美共約有四百名成年人，以往其中的五分之二赴外地工作，扣除服務公職者之外，約有一百人是在外打工。