The Executive Yuan's Council for Cultural Planning and Development allotted special assistance funds for the people of Chungyang Ward and Hsiyu Township's Erkan settlement on Penghu island this past August. After traveling to Japan to learn how local residents in places such as Kawagoe, Nara and Kurashiki made efforts to gain protected status pay off, all agreed that Taiwan could stand to learn a lesson from Japan's bottom-to-top experience.
行政院文化建設委員會在今年八月專案補助澎湖中央里和西嶼鄉二崁聚落的居民到日本，深入瞭解川越、奈良、倉敷等聚落居民努力爭取成為保存區的過程，一致認為我國確實應該參考日本「由下而上」的經驗。