For the past two years, prominent members of the government of the ROC have flocked to the center in order to attend ceremonies marking Taiwan's recovery from Japan. In 1978, the government initiated a twelve-phase plan to construct a county cultural center, with the Department of Education absorbing most of the cost.
連續兩年，台灣省光復節酒會都在文化中心的中正廳舉行，當時的行政院長蔣經國先生亦前來參加，認為文化中心的構想很好，六十七年便將興建縣市文化中心列入十二項經建計畫。