According to Chiang Po-wei, assistant professor at the Kinmen campus of the National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences and a longtime Kinmen researcher, the island has been able to preserve its traditional settlements and architecture to a high degree.
據長期研究金門的金門技術學院助理教授江柏煒解說，金門傳統聚落與建築保存完整度高，可稱得上是我國閩南建築文化圈的最後一個基因庫。