The Taiwan Sugar Industry Museum, believed to be the first of its kind in Asia, was established Sunday at an historical site of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation's 105-year-old sugar mill in Chiaotou township in Kaohsiung County, according to reports reaching here from Taipei.

Reports quoted local officials as saying that the museum would let the people understand the history of Taiwan's sugar industry and its close relationship with Taiwan's economic development.

More tourists are expected to be attracted by the establishment of the museum and create a boom for local leisure industries, the reports said.

The museum complex covers 16 hectares. Inside the museum is a sugar mill that displays the machinery and entire sugar-making process, plus an audiovisual center for briefing visitors about the development of Taiwan's sugar industry.

Displays outside the museum also include 19 historical relics and a railway for transporting sugar cane and semi-finished products.

Source: Xinhua