Taicheng

Taicheng Township is the capital of Taishan City, which lies at the proper financial institution of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province, China. The township covers 157.6 km² with a population of 176,000. With the urban centre covering just a few 18 km², there are 27000 mu beneath cultivation and 10 neighbourhood and 26 village committees. Some of those villages are surrounded by way of high-upward thrust city improvement, even as others lie within the rural outskirts of the township, which include the village of Bi Hou. In 1891, the Presbyterian Church of America constructed a chapel on the main thoroughfare of Tai Xi Road, which changed into reconstructed in fashionable red-brick in 1922 with a ability of 300.

In 1906, Chen Yixi began constructing a railway which ultimately related Taicheng with Jiangmen through the Sun Ning Railway Company. In 1907, the Tan Clan Middle School was founded east of the city, but is now surrounded with the aid of urban development. A new residential college is being constructed outdoor of the town to replace that's now a dilapidated and crowded structure. In 1938 the railway became destroyed earlier of invading Japanese troops. On March 3, 1941, Japanese troops from Doushan marched into Taicheng led by using a Chinese traitor, and took the city in three hours. 282 human beings had been killed, 534 stores and houses have been burnt, and items predicted at ¥3600,000 had been plundered.