Taiwan Sugar Corporation
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Taiwan Sugar Corporation (台灣糖業公司) or Taisugar (台糖) is a state-run enterprise in Tainan City, Taiwan
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The corporation was created in 1946, following Kuomintang
's entrance to Taiwan, by merging all sugar companies (Dai-Nihon, Taiwan, Meiji and Ensuiko Sugar Company) in Taiwan. In the 1950s and 1960s, sugar was one of Taiwan's major exports; the corporation remains a major land owner.
Taiwan's sugar trade, which flourished for almost 400 years, is now a sunset industry, and the Taiwan Sugar Corporation has diversified into tourism, floriculture, biotechnology
, and retailing. It also operates a chain of gas stations, and is an investor in the Taiwan High Speed Rail
.
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
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The corporation was created in 1946, following Kuomintang
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang of China , sometimes romanized as Guomindang via the Pinyin transcription system or GMD for short, and translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party is a founding and ruling political party of the Republic of China . Its guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, espoused...
's entrance to Taiwan, by merging all sugar companies (Dai-Nihon, Taiwan, Meiji and Ensuiko Sugar Company) in Taiwan. In the 1950s and 1960s, sugar was one of Taiwan's major exports; the corporation remains a major land owner.
Taiwan's sugar trade, which flourished for almost 400 years, is now a sunset industry, and the Taiwan Sugar Corporation has diversified into tourism, floriculture, biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...
, and retailing. It also operates a chain of gas stations, and is an investor in the Taiwan High Speed Rail
Taiwan High Speed Rail
Taiwan High Speed Rail is a high-speed rail line that runs approximately along the west coast of the Republic of China from the national capital of Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung...
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