It was only in 1994, with the Sixth Naptha Cracker, that Kukeng Rural Township began the transition from agriculture to industry, and that its citizens had some alternative way to make their living.
直到民國八十三年台塑在六輕工業區設廠以來，古坑鄉開始從農業走向工商業，鄉民有了新的謀生契機。