Balakong is a small town in
Selangor
, Malaysia
.
Balakong
is situated exactly at the boundary of Kajang
and Cheras
. It
is an up and coming area for condominium development with the Mines
Resort and the Juta Mines Condominium.
History
Name
According to locals, the name Balakong comes from the Chinese New
Village which name is Balakong New Village. The village was drawn
up and barred wired by the British government during the Communist
Emergency Period.
There was a river running through the village, which name was
Sungai Balak. The immediate guess was the village was named after
the river. The meaning of Kong has 2 origin.
one was "Kong" in Hakka,which means port or location. There was
upper kong and lower kong within the village. the other meaning was
said to be "ong" which means prosperity.
Before 1980s (1980-1990)
the village was surrounded by rubber plantation used Tin Mining
Lakes. Most families in the village was rubber tappers. There a was
primary school, a few Chinese temple, a wet market, a Lutheran
church(on a hilltop),a cowboy town street,a people's town hall and
a football field. The village was divided by Sungai Balak.
After 1990s{1990-2008}
During the development of Taming Jaya. the Locals said that the
developer Taming Jaya had rebuild the balakong road, a two lane
aside highway started from Mines wonderland to Cheras 11th
mile.
later, taman Caughlock from behind of the village had a road
connect Cheras.
Taming Jaya had develop rubber plantation opposite the village into
a small-industry area and housing estate.
Today
Today Balakong road had much been replaced by Balakong
SILK Highway which is
connected with Kajang Silk highway which exist at the
North-South Expressway
Southern Route . The surrounding area of Balakong now is a busy
town with small, light and middle industries with at least a few
thousand foreign workers from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia and
Vietnam.
On the site of New village Balakong, there is the turf club, Palace
of the Golden horses, Housing estates, factories, Mines wonderland
which house Giant supermarket and ends up with Econsave
Hypermarket, Jusco Hypermarket cum shopping complex with connection
to Bandar Tun Hussien Onn.
On the opposite of New village Balakong, There are Balakong Jaya,
Taming Jaya, Taming Jaya Kiri, Desa Ria, Taman Impian Eshan, Taman
Cheras Jaya and connected to Kajang town.