Pingtung Sugar Factory Introduction
In April 1907, Taiwan Sugar Company acquired Daito Sugar Company, establishing it as a branch factory in Alang Township, selected to be located in the Guiai Village of Alang Hall. The construction of the factory was completed in November of that year, and sugar production began. After the war, in 1950, it was rebuilt as the Pingtung Sugar Factory under the Taiwan Sugar Corporation, a status it maintains to this day. During the peak of the sugar industry, seventy-five percent of the country's foreign exchange was generated by sugar production, with Pingtung Sugar Factory being the largest producer. The Alang Sugar Factory became the headquarters of the Taiwan Sugar Company after the Kiozaitou Sugar Factory during the Japanese occupation, witnessing the rise of Pingtung City and making Pingtung the core of the Pingtung Plain.
