Its factory districts are neat and clean; the factories themselves are sealed and lack both smokestacks belching black smoke and the never-ending streams of trucks typical of traditional industry. "[ The public] knows nothing about the firms and has no dealings with them," says Chung Shuchi, a Hsinchu native who is both a delegate to the National Assembly and one of the founders of the Hsinchu City Environmental Protection Association.
潔淨的廠區，密閉式的廠房，少了吐黑煙的煙囪以及川流不息的重型車輛，頂著高科技的光環，「儘管對廠商不瞭解也接觸不到，園區當初仍很受居民歡迎」，「新竹市公害防治協會」創始會員，也是在新竹土生土長的國大代表鍾淑姬說。