Lu-chiang

Lu-chiang

Taiwan
also spelled  Lu-kang,  

      town and port in Chang-hua hsien (county), western coastal Taiwan, situated west of the city of Chang-hua, with which its fortunes have been closely linked. Formerly one of the chief ports of Taiwan, it absorbed many immigrants from the Chinese mainland cities of Amoy and Foochow in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. At one time, early in the 19th century, it is said to have had a population of 100,000. The central area of Taiwan, however, for which Lu-chiang was the chief port, declined in importance in the 19th century with the rapid growth of agriculture in the south and with the move of the administration in 1891 from T'ai-nan farther south to Taipei in the north. Taiwan's trade moved away to the new ports of Chi-lung and Kao-hsiung, which had better harbours and rail connections with the interior. By the early 1970s, Lu-chiang's commercial role, too, had largely been taken over by Chang-hua. It is now important for salt manufacturing and for such handicrafts as hat making. Pop. (1982 est.) 73,459.

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