Jianshi Township () is a mountain indigenous township in

Hsinchu County Hsinchu County (Wade–Giles: ''Hsin¹-chu²'') is a county in north-western Taiwan. The population of the county is mainly Hakka; with a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county. Zhubei is the county capital, where ...

in northern

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. It had an estimated population of 9,420 as of January 2017. The main population is the

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Atayal people The Atayal (), also known as the Tayal and the Tayan, are a Taiwanese indigenous people. The Atayal people number around 90,000, approximately 15.9% of Taiwan's total indigenous population, making them the third-largest indigenous group. The pre ...

Administrative divisions

1 Yixing Village
2 Jiale Village
3 Xinle Village
4 Jinping Village
5 Meihua Village
6 Xiuluan Village
7 Yufeng Village Jianshi Township Office

Tourist attraction

Dabajian Mountain Mount Dabajian (, Atayal: ''Papak waqa'', Saisiyat: ''Kapatalayan'') is located in the northern section of the Shei-Pa National Park in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It is surrounded by numerous other peaks, the most predominant including Mount Nan ...

Tapung Old Fort The Tapung Old Fort or Mount Lidong Fort () is a former fort in Jianshi Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. History After the end of First Sino-Japanese War and the signing of Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, the Japanese soldiers quickly spread ...

Notable natives

Joanne Tseng Joanne Tseng Chih-chiao (; born 17 November 1988) is a Taiwanese actress, singer and television host. Early life Tseng was born on 17 November 1988 in Jianshi, Hsinchu, Taiwan. She has an older sister, Chih-ying (曾之萦). Both of her par ...

, actress and singer *

Landy Wen Landy Wen (; Atayal: ''Yungai Hayung'') is a Taiwanese singer. In 2010, she was cast in a TV drama based on the Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director. ...

, singer

References

External links

* Townships in Hsinchu County {{Taiwan-geo-stub