In fact, in 1976 Lin Yung-teh put forth a plan for manmade beaches: This consisted of taking sand from well off the beach and depositing it on the badly eroded Hsihsi coast in Kaohsiung and planting broad areas of trees to stabilize the sand.
在外灘抽沙，再將沙堆置在嚴重侵蝕的高雄縣西溪海岸，並廣種林投樹穩定沙子。