"From the time of the Japanese occupation when it served the colonial 'motherland' down to the 1950s and 1960s when it earned foreign exchange, the state-owned TSC served the government," says cultural worker Tseng Chi-hsien, a longtime observer of TSC's development.
「從日據時代為殖民母國服務，一直到民國四、五十年代的創造外匯，身為國營企業的台糖一直是為政治服務，」長期觀察台糖發展的文史工作者曾吉賢說。