• Once a self-sufficient community
  • Taiwan's economic export value accounts for the largest proportion
  • Departing from an abandoned railway
  • With the introduction of local people
  • Let's understand the history of Taiwan Sugar
Sugar mill locomotive

Retired train that used to transport sugar cane

Old banyan tree

Old banyan tree accompanied Pingtung sugar factory

Shinpei Torii

Japanese engineer built a water collection corridor

Taitang County People's Park

The transformed Park is full of amazing designs

Historical Relics

The great chimney

There are two chimneys in pingtung sugar factory. The two chimneys stand in the sky and have always been the landmark of pingtung plain. When sugar factories boil sugar juice to make sugar, the smokestacks often emit smoke into the sky above pingtung city and drop ash. In the early days of the county council, there were often members of the "three evils" in pingtung. Apart from the smell of wannian creek and the pulp mill, it was the ashes from the old chimneys.

Going through the Second World War

With the change of The Times, the pulp mill and the sugar mill have been out of production, there was a time when taitian sugar to remove the old two chimneys, but the old chimneys are really pingtung old cultural relics, especially from the base of the nine meters high pipe, now we see the chimney, has been removed from the internal completion. Fortunately, during the second world war, the pingtung sugar factory was once bombed by the United States, a bomb fell into the chimney, the result was not detonated, so that the chimney survived, after the Taiwan sugar still took out the bomb did not explode slightly refurbishment, to keep the name of the bomb fish in the factory, as a witness. Although pingtung sugar factory now shut down, the smokestack is no longer smoking, but the sugar industry culture in pingtung left a historical trace will never be erased.

Sugar Mill Auditorium

The Tai-tang Hall was demolished a few years ago , and all that remains is the historic office building. "Iceshop,"is what the factory only has. Some netizens on the Internet miss Pingtung Sugar Factory, lamenting the old buildings were disappearing one by one , and pieces of land were sold .Loss of cultural property is the significant loss of citizens". The Company said that because the old buildings were difficult to maintain, and there are safety concerns, all the old ones had to be removed. What was left then is Taiwan Sugar Museum for keeping important cultural relics. Although Tai-tang has their concerns and needs, I think the preservation of some cultural relics is not only the responsibility of the company but also the common responsibility of the government and the public. I hope that the remaining buildings can be preserved and not destroyed or demolished.

Dorms of the Jap-colonial Period

It used to be where the sugar factory workers lived, and their dormitories were what we now see as Japanese bungalows with front yards and backyards, and the staff quarters were not only for the employees, but also for their families. The japanese-style dormitories have been demolished and replaced with single-family buildings. With the change of The Times, from the Japanese old house to the present high-end residential areas, are accompanied by many people's memories, no matter whether the house is torn down, the land will always have the good memories of those employees and families.