So apart from the restaurant business, many of the 5,000 and more overseas Chinese who have emigrated to Okinawa from Taiwan since 1945 run small sundry goods stores. With his botanical gardens, Li Chien represents a successful new departure.
因此，二次大戰後，自台灣移民琉球的五千多名新僑，除餐飲業外，多以經營小本的百貨行為主。經營植物園的李堅算是異軍突起。