Lu-kang

The ROC central government approved DuPont’s application to build an agricultural pesticide plant in the Chang-ping Industrial Zone near Lu-kang in August, 1985. However, the residents of Lu-kang and its nearby villages feared that the construction of a DuPont plant would definitely pollute local water and destroy the area’s seashore beauty and fishery. As one of the oldest communities in Taiwan, Lu-kang has a tremendous collection of cultural and historical treasures.

1987, Wen-hui Tsai, “Taiwan's Social Developments”, in Huangdah Chiu, editor, Survey of Recent Developments in China (Mainland and Taiwan), 1985-1986, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 134

South of Taichung is the old port town of Lu-kang. Here again we come face to face with Taiwan’s past, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Founded in the seventeenth century, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Lu-kang was an important port city with strong ties to Ch’uan-chou—the eighteenth-century classic but declining entrepôt of southern Min Fukien.

1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page x

Stan Shih was born on 8 December 1944 in the countryside village of Lu-Kang, located on the western coast of central Taiwan.

[2016, Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese biography, volume 4, Berkshire Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 397