Under the export-oriented economic policies of the 1970s, Kaohsiung, starting with its export processing zone, gradually became an industrial center for ship breaking, steel smelting, oil refining and disposal of heavy metals.
在一九七○年代外銷導向的經濟政策下，高雄由加工出口區開始，漸漸發展為台灣地區拆船業、鋼鐵工業、石化工業、煉油廠、廢五金…… 等工業的重鎮。