Mailiao Township () is a rural township in northwestern

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Geography

With a population of 49,039 people as of September 2022, Mailiao has an area of 80.1668 km².

Administrative divisions

Maifong, Maijin, Wayao, Xinghua, Haifeng, Houan, Zhongxing, Sancheng, Lunhou, Qiaotou, Xinji, Shicuo and Leicuo Village.

Economy

The township's chief industry is the Formosa Mailiao Refinery, an

oil refinery An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into useful products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, lique ...

that processes of

crude oil Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude ...

per day. The refinery exports it goods via the township's harbor.

Infrastructure

Mailiao Power Plant The Mailiao Power Plant () is a coal-fired power plant in Formosa Mai-Liao Industrial Park, Mailiao Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan. With a total installed capacity of 4,200 MW, the plant is Taiwan's third largest coal-fired power plant after Ta ...

Mailiao Refinery The Mailiao Refinery is an oil refinery complex in Mailiao Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan. History The refinery began its first phase of production in 2000 with a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day. In 2002, it reached its full capacity at 4 ...

Tourist attractions

Gongfan Temple Mailiao Gongfan Temple ( zh, t=麥寮拱範宮, p=Màiliáo Gǒngfàn Gōng) is a Mazu temple located in Mailiao, Yunlin County, Taiwan. The temple is protected as a national monument, the highest designation for a historical site within Taiwan. ...

Yong'an Temple The Yong'an Temple () at Mailiao Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan is a temple dedicated to the deity Kai Zhang Sheng Wang (開漳聖王), who his followers refer to as the "Sacred Duke, Founder of Zhangzhou City". History The groundbreaking for ...

Notable natives

Hsu Li-ming Hsu Li-ming (; born 17 January 1969) is a Taiwanese politician. Political career Hsu chaired the Greater Kaohsiung Research, Development and Evaluation Commission before he became a deputy mayor of Kaohsiung in 2015. He was named acting mayor o ...

, acting Mayor of

Kaohsiung Kaohsiung City (Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: ''Kao¹-hsiung²;'' Pinyin: ''Gāoxióng'') is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Kaohsi ...

(2018)

References

External links

Mailiao Township Office, Yunlin County
Townships in Yunlin County {{Taiwan-geo-stub