湖口鄉公所 Hukou Township Government - panoramio

Hukou Township () is a rural township of Hsinchu County,

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. With an area of , it is the third largest township in the county. Hukou had an estimated population of 77,908 in December 2019. The Hukou army base houses the 542nd Armor Brigade of the 6th Army Corps of the

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Administrative divisions

The township comprises 20 villages: Aishi, Boluo, Decheng, Fenghuang, Fengshan, Hexing, Hujing, Hukou, Hunan, Renshi, Shengli, Tungxing, Xiaoshi, Xinshi, Xinyi, Zhangan, Zhangling, Zhongshi, Zhongxing and Zhongzheng.

Economy

The township is home to the

Hsinchu Industrial Park The Hsinchu Industrial Park () is an industrial park in Hukou Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan.http://www.moeaidb.gov.tw/iphw/hsinchu/en/ History The industrial park was opened in 1977. Transportation The industrial park is accessible within ...

Education

China University of Technology China University of Technology (CUTe; ) is a private university in Taipei, Taiwan. The original campus is situated in Taipei's Wenshan District on five hectares of land. Since 2000, the owner has opened a second campus on 14 hectares of land i ...

, Hsinchu campus *Hsinchu county Hukou senior high school, incl. grades 7 to 9 *Hsinchu county Xinhu junior high school *Hsinchu county Chungcheng junior high school *Hsinchu county Hukou elementary school *Hsinchu county Changan elementary school *Hsinchu county Xinshih elementary school *Hsinchu county Xinhu elementary school *Hsinchu county Chungxing elementary school *Hsinchu county Hexing elementary school *Hsinchu county Huaxing elementary school

Tourist attractions

Armor School Museum Armour (British English) or armor (American English; see spelling differences) is a covering used to protect an object, individual, or vehicle from physical injury or damage, especially direct contact weapons or projectiles during combat, or f ...

Hukou Old Street ''Hukou'' () is a system of household registration used in mainland China. The system itself is more properly called "''huji''" (), and has origins in ancient China; ''hukou'' is the registration of an individual in the system (''kou'' lit ...

*Sanyuan Temple of Laohukou *Catholic Church of Laohukou Hukou Sanyuan Temple 20100731

Transportation

Rail

The

Taiwan Railways Administration Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) is a railway operator in Taiwan. It is an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, responsible for managing, maintaining, and running conventional passenger and freight railway services ...

serves Hukou via the Beihu and

Hukou ''Hukou'' () is a system of household registration used in mainland China. The system itself is more properly called "''huji''" (), and has origins in ancient China; ''hukou'' is the registration of an individual in the system (''kou'' li ...

stations.

Taiwan High Speed Rail Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) is the high-speed railway of Taiwan consisting of one line that runs approximately along the west coast, from the capital Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung. With construction and operations managed by a pri ...

passes through the central part of the township, but there is no planned station.

Road

The bus station in the township of Hukou is called the bus station of Hsinchu Bus Corp.

Notable natives

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, actress, singer and television host *

Fan Chen-tsung Fan Chen-tsung (; born 20 November 1942) is a Taiwanese politician. Fan graduated from National Taiwan Ocean University. From 1978 to 1986, he was a member of the Hsinchu County Council. In his second term as county councillor, Fan became the b ...

, Magistrate of Hsinchu County (1989-1997)

References

External links

* {{Townships in Taiwan Townships in Hsinchu County