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Director Wu Mingcheng of Xinying Railway Cultural Park promotes the "five-minute car" sightseeing tour. 2020/07/01

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Mr. Wu Mingcheng, Director of Taitang Xinying Railway Cultural Park, retired at the end of June. During his tenure, in addition to actively building a history of sugar and iron living in the Sugar Factory Railway Cultural Park, he also turned the sugarcane and sugar "five-point car" that the park used to carry Taiwanese sugar in the past. Afterwards, it became a small sightseeing and leisure train, driving from Zhongxing Station in the Cultural Park to the dairy farming area of Liuying Balouye Station. Today (30), Director Guo Zhenhui of the Municipal Tourism Bureau issued a certificate of appreciation, thanking Director Wu for his spare no efforts to promote nostalgic leisure and sightseeing trips.

Director Wu Mingcheng has been in Taiwan Sugar's service for 49 years. The senior staff of Taiwan Sugar witnessed the prosperity of Taiwan Sugar and its future transformation. From the time when it entered Taiwan Sugar, there were 23 sugar factories in Taiwan, and only Shanhua and Huwei sugar factories were left. In the transformation and transformation of sugar factories around the country, 13 years ago, he took over the director of the Railway Cultural Park, actively promoted the leisure and sightseeing of the Railway Cultural Park, and cooperated with the municipal government to build the Xinying Railway Scenic Park to form a band-shaped tourist attraction. Director Wu searched for the production tools and equipment left over from the sugar and iron in the cultural park, set up the Railway Cultural Relics Museum, set up the letterpress printing sugar printing and creative museum, etc. When walking in the park, you can see the Japanese-style building of the director’s dormitory and the presidential suite Tolerance dormitory is now listed as a historical building, and a careful taste of the sugar factory's past history. In 1992, the nostalgic love "five-minute car" leisure sightseeing train was launched from the Zhongxing Station of the Cultural Park to the Liuying Baye Station Dairy Cow Farming District, leading tourists to experience rural ecological tourism.

"Five-minute car" travels from Zhongxing Station to Balouye Station of the Cultural Park. A small railway sightseeing train travels. The train slowly advances with the sound of the whistle. It runs from Xinying District to Liuying District. The total length is 4.6 kilometers, and the speed is about 10 per hour. -15 kilometers, leading tourists from a city full of cultural atmosphere to a rural village with simple flavors, crossing the urban level crossing along the way, passing the Jishuixi Bridge, the Guoyi back station, the leisure fields and the fields, overlooking the fields of Jianan Plain, you can enjoy the scenery along the way Rice, corn, pasture, longan, mango and other farming plants have a panoramic view. After about 30 minutes by car, you will arrive at the eighth terminal station. The cow’s house Bawang Dairy Farm has cultural relics and children’s play in the early rural areas of Taiwan. You can also feed cows, sheep, pigs, rabbits, ducks and other small animals to drink milk and graze, and personally experience the past rural life.

In order to thank Director Wu Mingcheng, he has spared no effort to promote the tourist attractions such as Xintang Railway Cultural Park, Xinying Railway Landscape Park and the "Five-Minute Train" in Taitang. The Director of Municipal Tourism Bureau Guo Zhenhui specially issued a certificate of appreciation, except congratulations to Director Wu for his age When he was retired, he also thanked Director Wu for driving sightseeing tours for the city during his tenure. He guided tourists through the different characteristics of Tainan on the small train "five minutes" to experience diverse industrial tourism.

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