Chenggong, Taitung

Chenggong, also written Chengkung, is an urban township on the Pacific coast of Taitung County in eastern Taiwan. Its fishing harbor lies just west of the downtown, and the township had 13,193 inhabitants over a total area of about 145 square kilometres, with the Amis people making up roughly 53 percent of residents. The place began as an Amis settlement whose Hokkien name was Moalaulau. Under Japanese rule it became Shinko Town in Taito Prefecture, and after 1945 it was renamed Chenggong, a name that commemorates the general Koxinga, Cheng Cheng-kung, who expelled the Dutch from Taiwan, and that also avoided confusion with other places called Singang. The township is divided into eight villages, its economy rests on agriculture, fisheries and forestry, and Provincial Highway No. 11 serves it. Visitors come for the fish harbor, the Chengkuankao Matsu Temple, the Sanxiantai island, Singang Waterfall and two museums on marine life and natural history.