Qigu Saltworks

Qigu Saltworks (七股鹽場) was the largest salt field in Taiwan, covering more than 2,800 hectares of coastal Qigu and Jiangjun on the windswept coastline of Tainan. First developed by Japanese industrial salt concerns from 1935 to 1942, it was expanded in the 1970s with the addition of the Qingkunshen Fan-Shaped Saltworks (青鯤鯓扇形鹽田). The final harvest in May 2002 brought 338 years of solar salt production in Taiwan to a close, and the land was returned to the state when Taiyen (台鹽實業) was privatized the following year. Structures scattered across the former saltworks were collectively registered as a historic building in 2009 under the name Qigu Saltworks Capital Reduction Building Group (七股鹽場減資建物群).