Pingtung Sugar Factory Introduction
In April 1907, the Taiwan Sugar Manufacturing Company acquired the Da Dong Sugar Manufacturing Company and established it as a branch factory in Alang, located in the Guirai village of Alang District. The construction of the factory was completed in November, and sugar production began. After the war, in 1950, it was converted into the Pingtung Sugar Factory of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation, which continues to operate today. During the peak of the sugar industry, seventy-five percent of the country's foreign exchange earnings came from the sugar industry, with the Pingtung Sugar Factory producing the most sugar. The Alang Sugar Factory became the site of the Taiwan Sugar Manufacturing Company after the Kiozaikou Sugar Factory during the Japanese colonial period, marking a significant chapter in the rise of Pingtung City and establishing it as the core of the Pingtung Plain.
