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| | Eyewitness report of the earthquake relief efforts |
 | | The perspective of this report, however, is from one of the small towns in one of the regions hardest hit, Chung-Liao Township to the east of Nantou City, an area of steeply rolling hills crisscrossed with small rivers and planted with bamboo, oranges, bananas, longan, and betel nut palms. |
 | | The general prosperity of Taiwan is seen here in clusters of new tile-faced four-story residences and shop fronts, built in rows or interspersed with the older two-story cement buildings and brick or earthern-walled farmhouses--even though Chung-Liao is one of the poorer areas of the country. |
 | | Since the 1980's Taiwan's farm households have generally received more income from industrial work and remittances sent from children in the cities, than from selling their agricultural produce; and this income has given them a style of life somewhat below that of Taiwan urban dwellers, but still high by the standards of most of Asia. |
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