The Mountain Reservation Management Law of 1948 was passed to guarantee that they would have land to live on, to limit the flow of Han Chinese into the mountains, and to buffer the direct competition between them.
為了保障他們能使用一定面積的土地，以安定生活；並限制漢人大批湧入山地，緩和彼此間的直接競爭，才有民國卅七年山地保留地管理辦法的出現。