Xincheng Township or Sincheng Township () is a rural township located in north of

Hualien County Hualien County (Mandarin Wade–Giles: Hua¹-lien² Hsien⁴; Pīnyīn: ''Huālián Xiàn''; Hokkien POJ: ''Hoa-lian-koān'' or ''Hoa-liân-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Fâ-lièn-yen''; Amis: ''Kalingko'') is a county on the east coast of Taiwan. It ...

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 ...

, and has a population of 20,286 inhabitants and 8 villages. It is also the smallest township in Hualien County.

History

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Formerly called ''Toloboan'' ().

Administrative divisions

The township comprises eight villages: Beipu, Dahan, Jiali, Jialin, Jiaxin, Kangle, Shunan and Xincheng.

Climate

* Subtropical monsoon and humid climate * Average temperature: * Average precipitation:

Economy

The township is home to the cement

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

operated by

Asia Cement Corporation The Asia Cement Corporation (ACC; ) is a cement company of Taiwan. History ACC was founded on 21 March 1957. Cement plants * Hsinchu Plant at Hengshan Township, Hsinchu County * Hualien Plant at Xincheng Township, Hualien County Transport ...

and its cement plant.

Education

* Dahan Institute of Technology

Tourist attractions

Qixingtan Beach The Qixingtan Beach or Chihsingtan Beach () is a beach in Xincheng Township, Hualien County, Taiwan facing the Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic ...

* Chihsing Tan Katsuo Museum *

Tzu Chi Buddhist Tzu Chi Charity Foundation, known for short as the Tzu Chi Foundation ( zh, t=佛教慈濟慈善事業基金會, p=Fójiào Cí Jì Císhàn Shìyè Jījīn Huì, l=Buddhist Compassionate Relief Charity Foundation), is a Taiwanese in ...

Jing She (Temple of Tzu Chi Foundation) * Asia Cement Ecological Park

Transportation

Air

Hualien Airport Hualien Airport (; ami, Pahikukiyan nu Kalinku; Seediq: ) is a commercial airport located in an civilian area of Chiashan Air Force Base in Xincheng, Hualien County, Taiwan. With flights to Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung, it served 235,386 p ...

Rail

* TRA Beipu Station (

North-link line The North-Link Line () is the central section of the Eastern Line of the Taiwan Railways Administration. The length of its mainline is 79.2 km, and there is a 7.4 km long branch between Beipu and Hualien Port. History The high mountai ...

) * TRA Sincheng (Taroko) Station (

)

Road

* Provincial Highway No.9 * County road No.193

Notable natives

Wang Shin-lung Wang Shin-lung () is a general officer of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. Born in Xincheng, Hualien, ancestry from Dinghai, Zhejiang. He became Commanding General of the Republic of China Army The Republic of China Army (ROCA), pr ...

, Commander of the

Republic of China Army The Republic of China Army (ROCA), previously known as the Chinese Nationalist Army or Nationalist Revolutionary Army and unofficially as the Taiwanese Army, is the largest branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces. An estimated 80% of the ...

References

External links

Office of Xincheng Township(Chinese)
{{Taiwanese aboriginal areas Townships in Hualien County