Huwei

Hǔwěi (虎尾) is the second most populous town in Yunlin. The surrounding area was home to Favorlang, a Babuza Plains Indigenous settlement documented in Dutch colonial records as one of the largest in western Taiwan. The modern settlement grew around Huwei Sugar Factory, established in 1906, which transformed a sedate rural hamlet into a planned company town and district capital by 1920. Several Japanese colonial buildings have been restored as cultural facilities, among them Huwei County Office, now the Yunlin Puppet Museum, and Huwei Joint Office Building. Dingyuan Radio Station, built during the Cold War to broadcast into mainland China, survives in partial ruin.