Liu Mingchuan – Father of Taiwan's Modernization (Father of Taiwan Railways)
In Taiwan's thousand-year recorded history, although from the Yuan Dynasty through the Ming Dynasty, Japanese wokou pirates along the coast committed murder and robbery, causing Chinese authorities to tighten maritime policy and leading Taiwan through a dark period. However, in Taiwan's long and venerable history, if we discuss who contributed most to Taiwan's development, it must be attributed to Liu Mingchuan of the Qing Dynasty, whose achievements span transportation, agriculture, schools, aboriginal pacification, finance, and county planning, earning him the title of Father of Taiwan's Modernization.