As far as the business side of the community goes, over the past 20 years there has been a fourfold increase in businesses in Lihsiangkuo, from 80 in 1989 to over 300 today. Proudly, Pai notes that while business areas in Taichung City, like Tzuyou Road, had periods of prosperity, they eventually tailed off, whereas in Lihsiangkuo there's nary a closed shop.
至於維繫社區生活機能的商家部分，這二十年間也呈現四倍成長，從民國七十八年的八十間，到現在一直維持在三百多間上下，他驕傲地說，台中市如自由路等原本盛極一時的模範商區已逐漸凋零，這裡卻看不到關著門的店面。