The Taichung City Government () is the municipal government of

Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Taiw ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

History

Taichū City Government was established by the

Governor-General of Taiwan The governor-general of Taiwan ( ja, 臺灣總督, Taiwan Sōtoku) was the head of the Government-General of Taiwan in the Japanese era (including Formosa and the Pescadores) when they were part of the Empire of Japan, from 1895 to 1945. The Jap ...

and the Japanese colonial authorities on 1 October 1920. Following the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

, Taichung had been reconstituted as a provincial city government on 25 October 1945. Taichung

City A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

merged with

Taichung County Taichung County was a county in central Taiwan between 1945 and 2010. The county seat was in Yuanlin Township before 1950 and Fongyuan City after 1950. History Taichung County was established on 26 November 1945 on the territory of Taichū P ...

to become a

special municipality Special municipality may refer to: * Special municipality (Netherlands) There are twelve provinces of the Netherlands (), representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local municipalities, with responsibility fo ...

on 25 December 2010.

Building

The first Taichung city hall, known as

Taichung Shiyakusho The Taichung Shiyakusho () is a historical building in West District, Taichung, Taiwan. History The building was constructed in 1911 as a municipal building under the Japanese rule of Taiwan. The building underwent renovation in 2014 and was r ...

, was constructed in 1911, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. It has been turned into a cultural center since 2016. The current Taichung City Hall was completed and opened on 10 October 2010.

Organizations

Bureaus

* Agriculture Bureau * Civil Affairs Bureau * Construction Bureau * Cultural Affairs Bureau * Economic Development Bureau * Education Bureau * Environmental Protection Bureau * Finance Bureau * Fire Bureau * Health Bureau * Information Bureau * Labor Affairs Bureau * Land Administration Bureau * Legal Affairs Bureau * Local Tax Bureau * Social Affairs Bureau * Tourism and Travel Bureau * Transportation Bureau * Urban Development Bureau * Water Resources Bureau

Offices

* Budget, Accounting and Statistics Office * Central District Household Registration Office * Civil Service Ethics Office * Civil Service Training Center * Council for Hakka Affairs * Daya District Office * Department of Personnel * Indigenous People Commission * Information Management Center * Police Department * Research, Development and Evaluation Commission * Secretariat

Mayors

References

External links

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