In a visit to the office of the village level government--furnished, naturally, in rattan--one discovers from the head of the village Ho Hsuan-yung that there are over 400 small and large rattan factories in Kuanmiao, making up about 85 % of all domestic rattan factories; of the area's nearly 40,000 people, about 60 % work in rattan-related industries.
人人與藤有牽連鄉公所內也是全套藤器，鄉長何宣勇在辦公室裡翻開電話簿逐頁計算：「方圓五百卅六平方公里的關廟鄉，有四百多家大大小小的藤器工廠，約佔國內藤業工廠總數的百分之八十五；全鄉近四萬人中，百分之六十的人從事與藤相關的行業。」