In 1980, during his tenure as mayor of Taipei, Lee Teng-hui initiated a lightning campaign against the city ’ s street vendors but gave it up a few days later when then-president Chiang Ching-kuo stated: “ Street vendors are a product of the rapid development of our society and economy. They ’ ll disappear naturally once our citizens ’ incomes reach a certain level.
民國 69 年李登輝任官派台北市長時，曾雷厲風行「掃蕩」攤販，但掃了幾天就掃不下去，因為蔣經國總統指示：「攤販的存在是社會及經濟迅速發展產生的現象，將來國民所得達到一定水準，自然會消失。