The price of one chia (about 0.97 hectare) of farmland in Pate rose from around NT $ 1,300,000 three years ago, to NT $ 180,000,000 per chia for farmland near the local government offices by the beginning of this year--a 140-fold increase in value, which makes this one of the strangest chapters in the saga of Taiwan land prices over recent years.
三年前，桃園縣八德鄉的農地，平均一甲不過一百卅萬元左右；今年初，位於八德鄉公所附近的農地，每甲卻叫價到一億八千萬元，足足漲了一百四十倍。成了近幾年台灣「地價傳奇」中最神奇的一頁。