Yingge was a farming society in early years, and later, due to the development of water transportation, railways and highways, its industry and commerce developed smoothly. Yingge was also an important coal mine transit point because of the rich coal mine in the mountain areas.

The production of bricks, tiles, and stoneware began 200 years ago in Jianshanpu area. It started with the locals using the clay soil, firewood, weeds, coals, the development of waterway transportation, and the creation of kilns during the Japanese colonial. It was only a family sideline business until the Japanese colonial period, it got professional manufactured and had wider range of designs. Other industries started to decline after Taiwan was returned from Japan, but ceramic industry got prosperous and became the most important industry in Yingge.

After the 1980s, half of the residences in Yingge were in ceramic-related industries, which made it inseparable from their daily lives. Yingge has become Taiwan's ceramic art center and had an everlasting influence in Taiwanese culture.

Yingge is located in the southwest of New Taipei City, at about 35.7 degrees north latitude and 121.27 degrees east longitude. It is 25 kilometers away from Taipei City and 6 kilometers from Taoyuan. It is close to mountain forests, Dahan River, and adjacent to woods in the east. It borders the Sanxia and Taoyuan Daxi in the south and Guishan Taoyuan in the north. It is adjacent to Taoyuan City and Bade City, Taoyuan County to the west, covering a total area of 21.1248 square kilometers. The administrative area of Yingge District is divided into 20 Villages, with a total of 431 Neighborhoods. It has a humid subtropical monsoon climate. It brings Yingge more rainfalls in summer than winter.