In the 1960s, the Taiwan Chung Hsing Paper Corporation also widely planted Luchu pines in Taipei and Ilan counties as raw material for woodpulp production. Northern Taiwan became a great center of pine planting, and the Luchu pine, although an introduced species, was even chosen as Taipei County's county tree.
五十年代，中興紙業更引進琉球松在台北縣、宜蘭許多林地上推廣種植，以作為紙漿原料，北部因此成為平地松樹的大本營，異國來的琉球松，還因此被選為台北縣的縣樹。