The Dutch population has grown rapidly in the last half-century and its increase has been matched by an expansion of industry, with the result that the same period has seen the Netherlands develop from a mainly agricultural to an industrial country.

The ROC central government approved DuPont’s application to build an agricultural pesticide plant in the Chang-ping Industrial Zone near Lu-kang in August, 1985. However, the residents of Lu-kang and its nearby villages feared that the construction of a DuPont plant would definitely pollute local water and destroy the area’s seashore beauty and fishery. As one of the oldest communities in Taiwan, Lu-kang has a tremendous collection of cultural and historical treasures.

Adjacent phytochoria do not usually have a sharp boundary, but rather a soft one, a transitional area in which many species from both regions overlap.

And therewithall he swange oute a swerde and seyde, ‘But yf thou telle me all who hath ben here, now shalt thou dey!’