The township was formerly known as Dapulin since the Qing empire rule. The first name who came to this area was a Cantonese person. Afterwards, many Chinese immigrated to the area from Guangdong, China and Fujian, China. Most of them worked in the forest. During the Japanese rule, the government set up a sugar factory in the area.[1]
Demographics
It has a population of 29,937 in 11,505 households.
There are in total about 2,600 hectares of farmland in the township. Agriculture produce in the township are rice, bamboo shoots, oranges, tangerines, pineapples and orchids.[2] The total annual food production is 12,000 tons.[3]
The development of Dapumei industrial area has attracted corporations such as Canon to build factories.[4]
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