By the end of WWII, Taiwan was already short of most material goods. And when the government moved here, swelling the local population with the addition of two million soldiers and refugee civilians, there was a great shortage of housing and other types of construction. So the government embarked on large scale civil engineering.
中日戰爭末期，台灣物資極度缺乏，國民政府撤退來台時又有兩百萬大陸軍、民跟隨遷台，人口大增，建設更不敷使用，政府於是大行建設。