The premises underlying the effort to invigorate township industries are that Taiwan's townships need money and people flowing into them again; that they cannot continue to engage in poorly paid contract manufacturing; and that the only ways to return small towns to prosperity are to combine unique local industries with tourism, or to treat high-tech research and development as a "traditional value."
活絡鄉鎮產業的共同思維在於，台灣特色小鎮要重新匯聚人氣、財氣，不能再走廉價代工的路線，唯有將地方特色產業，結合休閒觀光旅遊，或者以高科技研發為傳統加值，才能再造小鎮榮景。