Geography and layout Ayer Tawar is about 60 km west of the state capital, Ipoh, and about 22 km from Lumut, where the largest Malaysian naval base is situated. The only means of getting to the town is by road from the north via Penang to Taiping to Pantai Remis, and from the south via Ipoh or the coastal road from Telok Intan to Sitiawan. Surrounding Ayer Tawar are a number of new villages such as Kampong Raja Hitam, Kampong Merbau, Kampong Jering, and the largest among all, Ayer Tawar New Village (not to be confused with the New Town section of Ayer Tawar itself). The town was originally divided into two sections known as Old Town and New Town by the Ayer Tawar River. Ironically, buildings in the Old Town area are much newer than those in the New Town area due to redevelopment after repeated fires, which gutted the thatch-roofed wooden shophouses. Today, development is going on in the New Town along the row of shophouses next to Jalan Sekolah, the road leading to the Min Te Chinese Primary School, which is the oldest school of the town. Besides that, there are a few primary school nearby. For example Ayer Tawar Tamil Primary School, Pei Min Primary School in Kampong Raja Hitam, Merbau Primary School in Kampong Merbau. Some notable landmarks in Ayer Tawar include: the Chinese Methodist Church, Taoist Nine Emperor Gods Temple, a Hindu Krishna Temple, the Buddhist Guang Ji Gong Temple, and the Kutien Association Building. The surrounding villages are also quite picturesque (having won "most beautiful village of the year" titles),[citation needed] consisting of modern, double-storey bungalows and surrounded by well-maintained gardens, with the roads lined by tropical trees and flowers.[citation needed] Economy Like many other rural townships, Ayer Tawar is economically dependent on its agro-based industries. The town is surrounded by plantations and small holdings of commercial crops, such as oil palms, rubber trees, cocoa, coconut trees and, recently, fruit plants such as durian and mango. From 1910 to 1970, rubber was the sole commercial crop cultivated by the farmers and the British plantation owners. The economic wellbeing of the population invariably fluctuated in tandem with the prices of rubber. In the early 1970s, the town suffered a devastating economic slump due to prolonged low rubber prices. This led to 3 significant developments: the emigration of the younger populace to major cities such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and even the United Kingdom, to seek a better living; the migration of many farming families to new settlements such as Sri Jaya in Pahang; and lastly the diversification of cultivation to include other commercial crops, the most important of which is the planting of oil palms. The latter now dominates land use in the vicinity. Demographics Ethnic Chinese, mostly from the Kutien sub-clan of the Fuzhou dialect group comprise the majority of Ayer Tawar's population. Most of them work in rubber estates and oil palm plantations, or participate in the retail industry. Outlying villages are populated by Malay paddy and fruit farmers. Ayer Tawar currently faces a problem of emigration of its younger residents to other bigger towns and cities. Schools There are 3 secondary schools(SMK Ambrose, SMK Methodist, SMJK Ayer Tawar) and more than 10 primary schools consisting of 3 Tamil primary school, 2 National (Malay) and 7 Chinese. The secondary schools are non-communal. However, Chinese students are the majority in two of the three, due to the demography of the town. About 6 kilometers away, there is the Nan Hua Chinese Independent Secondary School. Cuisine Ayer Tawar is famous for an onion biscuit called Kong pian (Chinese: ; Pinyin: Gungbng). 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