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Southwestern Taiwan is the hub of Taiwan’s sugar industry, and Huwei Sugar Refinery of Taiwan Sugar Corporation is one of the few still in operation to date. Apart from the scenes of sugar refineries and mechanical harvesting in sugar cane fields, the high speed trains of HSR and the sugar cane trains running slowly on sugar cane rails compose a typical landscape of Taiwan railways.
　　Jiji Branch Line was built by Taiwan Power Company (in the Japanese ruling period) to transport materials for the hydraulic engineering construction of Sun Moon Lake. Jiji Branch Line connects the section between Ershui and Checheng of the Taiwan Western Railway, and it is one of the few passenger rails still in operation today. In 1921, Jiji Branch Line was put into operation; in April 1927, the government purchased it for 3 million, 739 thousand dollars, making it one of the branch lines under the Taiwan Railway Bureau (the Taiwan Railway Administration [TRA] today). Jiji Branch Line runs alongside the Jhuoshuei River and passes through banana farms, and it is famous for the Green Tunnel. Of the existing TRA passenger lines, Jiji Branch Line is the longest both in mileage and in the time in operation.