Shulin District

Shulin (Chinese树林 区, pinyin Shulin Qū, PEH oē - jī Chhiū - nâ - khu ) is a district of the city of New Taipei City in northern Taiwan, Republic of China.

Location and History

Shulin is located on the western outskirts of New Taipei. The district is bordered to the north by Xinzhuang, Banqiao and on the east by Tucheng, in the south of Sanxia and Yingge and to the west by the Taoyuan County. The terrain is hilly in the west, however, falls to the east from.

The area was settled in the 18th and 19th century by Chinese immigrants who made the Plain in eastern arable. With the rise of situated close to Taipei's commercial and industrial city also changed the economic structure Shulins, where since the beginning of the 20th century settled small to medium-sized industries.

Importance

Shulin has a population density lying for New Taipei City in the central area and has largely the character of a satellite town to the nearby Taipei. In Shulin itself there are some industrial districts medium size.

A famous specialty Shulins is the ang- kak - chiu (红 麴 酒, Taiwanese, Chinese usually红 露酒Hónglùjiǔ ), a liquor made ​​from fermented red rice. The factory location, however, was laid in 2004 after Linkou.