The Qing dynasty, of which the defeat was inevitable in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, aimed at an early peace pact and signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan on April 17 of the same year, in which it agreed to cede the Taiwan region (the island of Taiwan and Penghu archipelago) as Japan demanded.
1895年に日清戦争の敗北が決定的になった清朝は、戦争の早期講和を目指して同年4月17日に日本と下関条約を締結し、その際に日本が求めた台湾地域（台湾島と澎湖諸島）の割譲を承認した。