This has recently begun to change: Since the latter half of the 2010s, Linkou has been undergoing a period of rapid population growth and land development relative to other nearby districts.

In 1975, it was released and implemented with the Linkou Interchange of National Freeway 1 as the center, including the planning of both industrial and residential areas.

At the early stages, development of the new town was slow due to various reasons, and the original estimated scale of 250,000 people was also reduced to 80,000.

It was pointed out that the reason for the failure was that the industry was not properly introduced, the transportation was inconvenient, and it was quite far away from the Taipei metropolitan area.

[8] However, the subsequent opening of the Taoyuan Airport MRT Linkou metro station in 2017 and the development of Huaya Science and Technology Park in Guishan District have improved the traffic between Linkou and Taipei City and Taoyuan International Airport, respectively.