"A poor, out-of-the-way township with a population of only about 10,000 accounted for the principals of 86 of the county's 140 primary schools," says Shen Chung-yuan, the dean of student affairs of National Open University and a former director of the Hualien County Bureau of Cultural Affairs. "In fact, Fenglin has produced more elementary school principals per capita than any other place in Taiwan."
直到民國 92 年，花蓮縣政府統計才驚覺，「整個花蓮地區不過 140 所國小，一個窮鄉僻壤的萬人農村竟生產出 86 位校長，是全台出產小學校長密度最高的地方！」現任空中大學學務長、曾是花蓮縣文化局局長的沈中元說。