Founded in 1935, the Chung Hsing Paper Corporation, formerly the Taiwan Industrial Promotion Corporation, was later renamed the Taiwan Chung Hsing Paper Corporation after the Nationalist Government arrived in Taiwan.

During the period of Japanese rule, the plant used sugar cane waste and silver grass pulping technology. Later, it employed chemical processes to manufacture white paper. The factory’s paper production capacity was not only the largest in Taiwan, it was the greatest in all of Southeast Asia.

Later fluctuations in the price of paper on the international market hit and economic transition caused the factory to cease operations in 2001. Its doors remained shut for 13 years until the Yilan County Government took over in 2014. The government employed reengineering strategies, preserving and revitalizing the plant’s infrastructure, reopening the former factory to be a home for the creative and cultural industry and a cultural incubator, giving Chung Hsing a new lease on life.