Wei Wen-kao's father passed away in 2001 from nasopharyngeal cancer. Since then, the family's land has lay fallow. Wei fishes for eel fry in the winter and takes on odd jobs during the rest of the year to support his four children and elderly mother.

Wei says that, "My ancestors told us that if you have your fields and the sea, you will never go hungry. Since the Sixth Naphtha Cracking Plant has come, we don't have anything."