Chongren New Village Kongxiang Area

One of three surviving enclaves of Chongren New Village (崇仁新村) in Pingtung City, built in 1941 as the third phase of officers’ quarters for the Japanese Army’s 8th Flight Regiment (日本陸軍飛行第八聯隊), expanded by then into the 3rd Air Group. The compound originally comprised five types of housing units, the largest of which were situated on lots of approximately 500 ping. After 1945 it was taken over by the ROC Air Force’s 6th Wing and rebranded as the “soaring sky” sector of Chongren New Village. Residents began moving out from 2010 onwards under pressure from a urban renewal program and 31 buildings were subsequently registered as historic buildings in 2018. In 2023 the site was reopened alongside Desheng New Village as Taiwan’s first “ruins park” (遺構公園), with the surviving structures repurposed into an open-air heritage space.