Juifang and Chiufen, nearby, were famous in the early part in the century for their gold mines, when prospectors swarmed in and the towns boomed for a time. They were used as background by director Hou Hsiao-hsien in the film City of Sadness.
附近的瑞芳和九份，民國初年及日據時期曾以金礦聞名，淘金客雲集，繁華一時，導演侯孝賢的電影「悲情城市」即在此取景。