A refined-salt plant on the windswept coast of Tongxiao, Miaoli, opened in 1975 and still operated by the Taiwan Salt Company (臺鹽). It produces table salt from seawater by ion-exchange membrane electrodialysis, a modern process that displaced traditional solar evaporation. Since 2011 part of the site has run as a tourist factory (觀光工廠), with a salt museum, a souvenir and popsicle shop, and a small park.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
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- Salt Industry in Taiwan (台灣鹽業)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.