Taipei County is in the northern part of Taiwan, which also surrounds
Taipei City, including eight cities, six towns and fifteen countries.
The population is about 3440211 people, which takes more than 15% of
Taiwan's population. Obviously, it's the biggest county in Taiwan. The
main stream Taipei County is Ten-Sui River. Industry is more
prosperous than commercial in Taipei country, especially the sectors
of electricity, computer, machine, and plastics. Most citizens in
Taipei Country are Taiwanese, and Hakarian; therefore, many different
cultures are mixed together - Taipei country is a diversity county.
Yingko town is located in the southwest part of Taipei County. It
connects with Taoyuan county in both west and north sides. This town
is named after Yingko because of a huge stone perfectly in the
middle of a mountain. The shape of the stone is like an eagle;
therefore it was named after Yingko and the name, Yingko, is sounds
like an eagle in Chinese. If we mention Yingko in Taiwan, most people
always associate this town with china soon because Yingko is famous
for finest china.
Yingko's history has begun with china's production since 1805, the
year the immigrants of first generation, who moved from China to
Taiwan. They discovered that the soil of Yingko is quite suitable to
make china, and decided to open china factories here and earn lots of
money by producing china with traditional skills. With the time passed
by, Yingko developed with the growing of china's production gradually.
In 1921, the china production organization established in Yingko, and
the birth of this official organization changed the circumstance of
making china here. There could be more and more china factories and
people wouldn't stand the only one factory anymore. After the year
1921, Yingko became the main source of china in Taipei state. After
the year 1931, the Japan authorities promoted the industrialization in
Taiwan and so did Yingko. From that time, Yingko started producing
other kinds of china besides some traditional ones such as cooking
equipment or furniture and developed special production in industrial
field. Many factories tended to make china by profession and modern
machines instead of using traditional ways of making. What's more, at
the yeas 1945, Yingko became the center of china in Taiwan. Partly
because more and more factories used advanced making skills and the
mass transportation got better from Yingko to everywhere in Taiwan.
Partly because Taiwan joined the international exhibition in American
and attracted many people request to produce the china successfully.
That's the climax in Yingko's history.
Now there are at least 800 china factories in Yingko, and you can say
that "No china, no Yingko". Visitors can find that there is thick dust
covering on the appearance of the house and are impressed with the
different atmosphere saturated in this small town. People can learn
how to make china, how to enjoy the beauty of china , or go picnicking
in the old china factories left in Yingko for a whole day and you'll
love this town of china gradually for no reasons.