Dapu Community Development Association Drives the Transformation of the Shallow Mountain Area

**If you are going to do it, do it steadily**

Risheng Pastry Company, founded in the 82nd year of the Republic of China, is located in Dapu Community, Gukeng Township, Yunlin County. Its founder, Brother Zhang Hexian, said that at the time he was originally working in Taipei, but because his mother had passed away, as the eldest son he took on the heavy responsibility of caring for his elderly father, resigned from his stable job outside, and returned to his old home in Dapu, Gukeng, Yunlin. After returning home, by learning together with his younger brother, who was then a chef, how to make desserts, he gained different ideas and approaches, established Risheng Pastry Company, connected with many restaurant operators externally, and through continuous study enabled the enterprise to keep progressing and developing.

Because he grew up on this land from childhood, he naturally had many ideas and much passion for his hometown. In the community's past promotion process, he maintained a good relationship with the community, including becoming a community volunteer, providing the company's venue for the community to use in holding many experiential activities, and often providing many meals to the community free of charge; in this process, step by step, he won the community's recognition, and now that he has become increasingly mature in community affairs, in the 106th year of the Republic of China he took over the community's affairs and became the chairman of the Dapu Community Development Association.

Finally, what the chairman wants to say is that Dapu Community has good mountains and good water, but it just is not boring. The reason people might find it boring is simply that they have not found local experts to lead the way and help plan the visiting process. Whether now or in the future, Dapu Community is located right off the Douliu Interchange of National Highway No. 3, along Provincial Highway No. 78, getting off at the Gukeng/Douliu Interchange, heading toward Gukeng. Along the way, besides feeling the beauty of Gukeng, you will also gradually feel as if you are entering another place for treasure hunting, and that is Dapu. Now that transportation is convenient, you can take a different kind of experiential trip, and you can also come here to relax a little and experience the different scenery of the four seasons.