sentences:  Before construction of the college, Taungwaing mountain and its surrounding areas had been a camping site for the British administrators and local elites and the gardens of local Chinese community during the colonial period in the 19th and early 20th centuries.According to Howard Malcom in 1836, early settlers of the Moulmein Chinese community made a living by growing vegetables and fruits in Taungwaing (hill-circle in Burmese, "ling-ding" in Chinese) and its surrounding areas.It was renamed Mawlamyaing Degree College in 1964.