In the 1960s, General Ne Win launched a military coup to implement communism in Myanmar.

The anti-Chinese incidents in Myanmar seriously threatened the property and safety of the Chinese community in the country. The anti-Chinese incidents coincided with the Taiwan government giving financial support to the Myanmarese -Chinese students, and have led to many of these students traveling to Taiwan with their families.

Many of them gathered and settled down in the Zhonghe Nanshijiao area was because the housing prices are low and the transportation with Taipei City is more convenient.

In addition, Nanshijiao was an industrial zone at that time. For example, Texas Instruments Inc. In the area gave Myanmarese-Chinese with an advantage in English the job opportunities, so that they can earn money to support their families, and eventually settled here.