At the end of last year the Democratic Progressive Party's Liao Yung-lai, who has led local people over a long period in opposition to the Bayer investment plan, won the Taichung County seat in the elections for city and county magistrates. Overnight, this put a big question mark against the Bayer plan to invest in the Taichung Harbor zone.
去年底的台灣省縣市長選舉結果揭曉，長期帶領民眾反拜耳的民進黨籍候選人廖永來奪下台中縣長寶座，使得拜耳在台中港投資的可能，一夕之間大打折扣。