As a satellite industrial zone and supplier of agricultural products for Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung County played a peripheral role to the secondary center after Taiwan's economy shot out of the blocks in the 70s.
自從台灣經濟起飛的民國 60 年代以來，高雄縣長久扮演著次中心的外圍角色，是高雄市的衛星工業區和農產品供應地。