• 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

Taiwan Sugar Company History

Taiwan sugar company, Taiwan sugar for short, was founded in Shanghai on May 1, 1946 and moved its headquarters to Taipei on January 19, 1947. Taiwan sugar company`s sugar cane planting area up to 120,000 hectares (1948-1949), sugar production up to 1 million tons (1964-1965), sugar export foreign exchange revenue up to 135 million us dollars (1964), once accounted for the republic of China's total export foreign exchange 79%. According to the data of the national bureau of statistics, the cultivated area of sugar in China decreased from 2030.44 thousand hectares in 2012 to 1736.54 thousand hectares in 2015, a decrease of 14.47%. By 2016, domestic sugar production was 9.3 million tons, while domestic sugar consumption was 15.22 million tons.

Glorious past

Sugar industry used to be the common memory and experience of many people in Taiwan. Sugar factory community once occupied 1/60 of the land in Taiwan. However, due to the industrial reform, the government began to pay attention to industry, high-tech industry and other precision technology industries, resulting in the gradual decline of Taiwan's agriculture, many sugar mills have been closed, many of the sugar mill's historical sites have been either demolished or abandoned (such as: pingtung pulp mill and Taiwan sugar smokestacks... As a result, the area of the sugar community has been greatly reduced. Most of the remaining sugar mills have been converted to tourism and diversified operations have begun. However, some sugar mills have maintained the original technology and continued to preserve the culture of sugar making.