Pingtung Sugar Factory Introduction
In April 1907, the Taiwan Sugar Manufacturing Company acquired the Daitō Sugars Co., Ltd., establishing it as the A-Kang branch of the Taiwan Sugar Manufacturing Company, located in the Kuei Lai Village of the A-Kang District. The construction of the factory was completed in November, starting its sugar production operations. After the war, in 1950, it was transformed into the Pingtung Sugar Factory of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation, where it remains to this day. During the peak of the sugar industry, seventy-five percent of the country's foreign exchange was generated from sugar production, with the Pingtung Sugar Factory being the largest producer. The A-Kang Sugar Factory became a key location for the Taiwan Sugar Manufacturing Company after the Kiaozi Sugar Factory during the Japanese colonial period, and its establishment witnessed the rise of Pingtung City, making Pingtung the heart of the Pingtung Plain.
