Other scholars would add the Shao of Sun Moon Lake as a tenth. After the retrocession of Taiwan to China in 1945, the government classified the aborigines into "mountain aborigines" and "lowland aborigines." The administrative areas allotted to each group make up 44 percent of the island's land area, and the aboriginal population is currently 320,000.
台灣光復後，依規定又有了個新分法：當時戶籍在山地行政區的先住民及其子孫，為「山地山胞」；在平地行政區域內者，稱「平地山胞」；二者所居的行政區，佔全省總面積的百分之四十四．三。