"Taitung has progressed very rapidly these past few years, and there is digging and construction everywhere," he says. Pointing to a newly opened road, he adds, "I remember 30 years ago when we first got here, Taitung didn't even have one asphalt road; they were all gravel tracks."
「台東這幾年進步很快，到處都在拓寬、建設」，譚維義指著新闢的路說：「記得卅年前我們剛來時，台東連一條柏油路都沒有，全是石子路。」