Most of Taiwan's bamboo chopsticks come from Chushan, where chopstick factories sprang up all over the place in the early '80s with the government drive for restaurants to use disposable chopsticks as a preventive measure against hepatitis-B.
台灣的竹筷，以竹山為最主要的產地，民國七十年代初，政府為遏止 B 型肝炎，大力推展餐廳使用免洗餐具，竹筷廠如雨後春筍般一一成立。