Development has long since ruined many important historic sites throughout Taiwan: Taipei County's Shihsanhang site was turned into the Pali wastewater treatment facility. Taitung's Peinan site became the new Peinan station on the southern link railway line. Thousands of years of this island's history are being rapidly lost, and a government and a public oblivious to archaeological sites are among the main culprits.
因為開發，台灣各地的重要考古遺址早已受到相當程度的破壞，當台北縣十三行遺址變成八里污水處理場、當台東卑南遺址變成台鐵南迴線卑南新站時，曾在這座島嶼上存在數千年的歷史快速遺落，最大幫兇正是政府和社會大眾對於文化遺址的不重視。