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23-650: Hsinchu County 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 seat, where the government office and county office is located. A portion of the Hsinchu Science Park is located in Hsinchu County. Before the arrival of the Han Chinese , the Hsinchu area

46-474: A county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of the later years of Qing dynasty . The first administrative divisions named "county" ( 縣 ) was first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With

69-622: A population of over two million can grant some extra privileges in local autonomy that was designed for special municipalities . This type of counties are often called quasi-municipalities ( 準直轄市 ). This term applied to New Taipei and Taoyuan before they became special municipalities . There are currently 13 counties: Under Article 9 of the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China , regulated by

92-505: Is Yang Wen-ke of the Kuomintang . The administrative division of the county are: Colors indicate the common language status of Hakka and Formosan languages within each division. The population of the county consists of Hakka , Hoklo , aborigines and new immigrants. The Hakka people constituted around 84% of the total population in 2014, while the aborigines consisted mainly of Atayal and Saisiyat people . As of October 2023,

115-725: Is home to the gas-fired Hsintao Power Plant with a capacity of 600 MW located in Guanxi Township . Hsinchu County houses the Baoshan Dam and Baoshan Second Dam . Hsinchu County has one professional basketball team, the Hsinchu JKO Lioneers of the P. League+ . The Hsinchu Station of the Taiwan High Speed Rail is located in the county at Zhubei City . Hsinchu County is crossed by three Taiwan Railways Administration lines, which are

138-455: Is the elected county council of Hsinchu County , Republic of China . The council composes of 35 councilors lastly elected through the 2018 Republic of China local election on 24 November 2018. The council was originally established on 14 April 1946 in Taoyuan at Wudedian Hall. It was then soon dissolved on 23 January 1951. The first members of the council was elected on 7 January 1951 and

161-644: The Japanese prefectural cities were reformed to provincial cities and are not a part of counties. Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. In late 1949, the government of the Republic of China lost the Chinese Civil War and was relocated to Taipei , Taiwan . In 1950,

184-531: The Liujia Line , Neiwan Line and Western Line . County (Taiwan) The counties were formerly under the jurisdiction of provinces, but the provinces were streamlined and effectively downsized to non-self-governing bodies in 1998, in 2018 all provincial governmental organs were formally abolished. Counties along with former " provincial cities " which alternately designated as simply "Cities", are presently regarded as principal subdivisions directed by

207-487: The Local Government Act , each county has a government headed by an elected county magistrate and an elected county council exercising legislative functions. The governing bodies (executive and legislature) of the counties are: Hsinchu County Council The Hsinchu County Council ( HCC ; traditional Chinese : 新竹縣議會 ; simplified Chinese : 新竹县议会 ; pinyin : Xīnzhú Xiàn Yìhuì )

230-539: The Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure — in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of

253-704: The central government of Taiwan. Hsien have existed since the Warring States period , and were set up nation-wide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1000. Under the Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when

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276-572: The alluvial plains of the Fengshan River and Touqian River mouth area, and some ancient river land. The average climate in Hsinchu County is mild. Hsinchu County controls 1 city , 3 urban townships , 6 rural townships and 2 mountain indigenous townships . Zhubei City is the seat of Hsinchu County which houses the Hsinchu County Government and Hsinchu County Council . The incumbent Magistrate of Hsinchu County

299-548: The areas of modern-day Hsinchu County and City , Miaoli , and Taoyuan . Like the rest of the Taiwan, the county is part of the nominal Taiwan Province of the Republic of China (ROC), which s no longer has any administrative function practically. After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Hsinchu County was established on 25 December 1945. In August 1950, Miaoli and Taoyuan were taken out from

322-500: The counties in Taiwan were reorganized. Counties in populous western Taiwan were split into two to three counties. This pushed the number of counties up to 16. After the war, the government only controlled a few offshore islands of mainland China . Among them are two of the 67 counties of the original Fujian Province : Kinmen and Lienchiang . The number of counties under jurisdiction, 16 in Taiwan and 2 in Fujian, remained stable until

345-466: The county area to form Miaoli County and Taoyuan County respectively. On 16 August 1950, Hsinchu City was incorporated to the county as county-administered city . However, the city was then upgraded again to become a provincial city on 1 July 1982 and was taken out from Hsinchu County area. The county's Xiangshan Township was incorporated into Hsinchu City on 1 July 1982. In 2021, plans are underway to have both Hsinchu county and city merged into

368-593: The early 1990s. Following the democratic reforms in the early 1990s, more proposals of administrative division reforms were widely discussed and ultimately caused some populous counties be reformed to special municipalities in the 2010 and 2014. These counties are: Currently, the counties are established according to the Local Government Act under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior . This act also endorses some special articles that grants counties with

391-540: The increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missions in China first romanized the term as hien . Taiwan was ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895. The hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan under Japanese rule . By September 1945, Taiwan

414-538: The nation's seventh special municipality . Hsinchu County is located at the northwest part of Taiwan Island. The county borders Taoyuan City to the north, Miaoli County to the south, the Taiwan Strait to the west, and the Xueshan & Dabajian mountains to the east. With an area spanning up to 1,427.59 km (551.20 sq mi), Hsinchu County is composed mainly of uplands, tablelands, mountains,

437-660: The total population was 588,535, with 288,912 females and 299,623 males. After the founding of Hsinchu Science Park in 1980, a high number of high-tech industries began to grow and expand outside the park, attracting workers coming to work and settle in the county. Education in Hsinchu County is administered by the Education Department of Hsinchu County Government . The county is home to the Minghsin University of Science and Technology and Ta Hwa University of Science and Technology . Hsinchu County

460-410: Was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ). After the retrocession to the China on 25 October 1945, the prefectures were reformed into eight counties ( 縣 ) with the same name under Taiwan Province of the Republic of China . Their roman spellings were also changed to reflect the official language shift from Japanese to Mandarin Chinese , but characters remained the same. Note that most of

483-674: Was established there in 1711 and renamed Hsinchu in 1875. It became part of Taipeh Prefecture . In the late 19th century, Hoklo people dominated the coastal plains, forcing the Saisiyat and Atayal tribes to move to areas around Jianshi and Wufeng , while the Hakka and Taokas settled together in the river valleys and hills. Japanese occupation of Taiwan began after the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895. Hsinchu became known as Shinchiku and, by 1920, its prefecture covered

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506-473: Was home to the indigenous Taokas , Saisiyat , and Atayal . After the Spanish occupied northern Taiwan , Catholic missionaries arrived at Tek-kham in 1626. Minnanese ( Hoklo ) and Hakka came and began to cultivate the land from the plains near the sea towards the river valleys and hills. In 1684, Zhuluo County was established during Qing dynasty rule and more Han settled near Tek-kham. A Chinese city

529-596: Was shown on 23 January 1951. The temporary office for the council was at the east room of the Hsinchu County Government building (the present-day Hsinchu City Hall). On 28 October 1989, the county council moved from Hsinchu City to Zhubei City in Hsinchu County . Since the local elections in 2014 , the Council was composed as follows: Since the local elections in 2022 , the Council

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