Hi-Scene CEO Yang Ching-nan recalls that in 1999 he learned from the media that the government had decided to have the aquarium privately managed, and at that point the Nan Ren Hu Group, which specialized in resorts and the leisure industry, actively sought the contract.
海景公司總經理楊慶南回憶，1999 年從媒體得知政府決定將海生館交由民間經營，以渡假村、休閒產業為主的南仁湖集團便積極爭取。