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	Hualien City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		With an area of 4,628.57141 km², Hualien County is the largest county in Taiwan which is about 1/8 the entire size of Taiwan island.
		Hualien County's economy is based on its tourism industry and its mining of marble and limestone.
		Hualien County 's capital is Hualien City with an approximate population of about 110,000 people in 35,000 households.
	www.hualien.net /en (268 words)

	TiT Scenery:Hualien--City of Marble
		For much of its existence, Hualien was connected to the rest of the island only by the perilous highway that clings to the coastal cliffs all the way from Suao 110 kilometers to the north.
		This is one of Hualien's oldest temples, and at this time of the year it is supposed to have special healing qualities for the Taoist faithful.
		One of the defining factors of Hualien's character is its large population of aborigines.
	www.sinica.edu.tw /tit/scenery/1096_Hualien.html (1251 words)

	Matsu Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The Matsu Islands (馬祖列島; or less frequently, 馬祖群島 Pinyin: Mǎzǔ) are a minor archipelago of 19 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait administered as Lienchiang County (連江 Pinyin: Liánjiāng), Fujian Province of the Republic of China (ROC, based on Taiwan).
		The People's Republic of China controls the part of the county adjoining the mainland and has a separate administration for that jurisdiction, Lianjiang County, which claims the entire archipelago to be its Mazu Township (妈祖乡;).
		In April 2003, the county government started considering changing the name to Matsu County to avoid confusion with the county of the same name on the mainland.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/m/ma/matsu_islands.html (683 words)

	SC Sister City Hualien, Taiwan Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Hualien borders the Pacific Ocean with the Central Mountains to the west.
		The Taroko National Park located in Hualien County was established in 1986 and was of special significance for the environmental protection movement in Taiwan.
		Hualien is the province’s leading producer of marble and jade and is known as the City of Marble.
	www.cityofbellevue.org /page.asp?view=2605 (321 words)

	Valley News Web Story Layout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		This area, called the Fuyuan Forest Resort, in the low mountain range of coastal Hualien County is a birdwatcher's paradise -- thanks to new conservation efforts and a greater awareness of the importance of nature.
		To protect the county's natural beauty, authorities have cracked down on random dumping of industrial waste, gravel digging on riverbeds and the use of electric wires to kill fish.
		Birds are coming back elsewhere in Hualien, a county that offers spectacular scenery with a mountain range running parallel to coasts facing the Pacific Ocean.
	www.vnews.com /09012003/1269396.htm (659 words)

	- Hualien, Taiwan (Official City of Bellevue Website)
		Hualien borders the Pacific Ocean with the Central Mountains to the west.
		Hualien is the province’s leading producer of marble and jade and is known as the City of Marble.
		Hualien is expected to grow to a more industrial and commercial city in the future.
	www.ci.bellevue.wa.us /taiwan.htm (316 words)

	Welkom to the FeshPlaza.
		Hualien County farmer Li Jia-fang was one of the first to make the government-aided transition to organic farming.
		Hualien County Government persuaded persuaded 100 local farmers to convert their land for growing organic produce.
		As the only county government monitoring its organic farmers and with the legal right to certify their produce, Hualien County Government hopes to set a precedent and in turn cultivate organic products that consumers can trust.
	www.freshplaza.com /2005/21juni/2_tw_organictrend-nieuw.htm (1504 words)

	Taiwan Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Taiwan Province also excludes Kinmen and Lienchiang Counties, which are adminstered as the ROC part of Fujian Province.
		Note: The cities of Taipei and Kaohsiung are administered directly by the central government and are not part of Taiwan province, though the counties of the same name surrounding these cities are part of the province.
		In contrast to the past where the head of Taiwan province was considered a major official, the Governor of the Taiwan Provincial Government after 1999 has been considered a very minor position.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Taiwan_province (1197 words)

	Hualien County travel guide - Wikitravel
		Hualien County [1] is in located on the east-coast of Taiwan.
		Hualien County was one of the last places to be settled by the Han Chinese.
		The Bus system is pretty rudimentary and it is hard to find the correct time for the departure of the bus.
	wikitravel.org /en/Hualien_County (172 words)

	ITRI - News Releases - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Hualien County government and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) signed an agreement to build the nation first demonstration plant to produce "solid refuse derived (RDF) fuel" with a capacity of processing one ton of municipal garbage per hour.
		Hualien County worked hard to grasp such an opportunity.
		After the agreement signing ceremony, the county governor Chang said that Hualien County is very appreciative of this cooperation project, in the hope of extending the benefits in environmental education and tourism attraction.
	www.itri.org.tw /eng/news/news-show.jsp?id=e200208061_utf8.dcr (573 words)

	Hualien
		She is a member of the Ami tribe, one of the aboriginal groups in Hualien area.
		She is hoping to get some of the traditional ramie fiber used by the aboriginals in Hualien County to use as the strings that hold the map together.
		Hualien City is foruate to have such a dedicated person as mayor.
	www.janeingramallen.com /residency/Taiwan/expanded_grant/Hualien/Hualien.htm (3340 words)

	Headline News
		HUALIEN, Taiwan - After evaluation and approval by the Public Health Department the status of Tzu Chi Hospital in Hualien has been upgraded to a medical center.
		Jen-hsing Shih, the head of the Public Health Department of Hualien County and Chih-kai Huang, the Superintendent of Hualien hospital were among the guests from all walks of lives invited to the dedication ceremony.
		The representative of Hualien county's Public Health Bureau strongly agreed that with its ample resources of medical personnel and equipment, Tzu Chi Hospital actively assists the Public Health Bureau by performing a wide variety of medical services.
	www.tzuchi.org /global/news/articles/20020716.html (554 words)

	Taiwan Information
		Hualien is the meeting point of the Central Cross-Island Highway, Suau-Hualien Highway, and highways leading south to Taitung.
		The erosion by the Hualien, Hsiukuluan and Bunan rivers helped to diversify the geological variety in the Hua-tung valley; resulting in valleys, falls, hot springs, streams, riverbeds, alluvial plains, faults and swamps.
		The Bachi Recreation Area, located high on the mountainside at the northern end of the beach, is the perfect place for a bird's-eye view of the graceful curve of the bay and the waves breaking on the shore.
	www.asia-planet.net /taiwan/hualien.htm (6704 words)

	Hualien City Taiwan - Taiwan tourist & travel guide for Hualien City, Taiwan
		Hualien County's jurisdiction includes one city, two townships and ten minor townships.
		Hualien is located in eastern Taiwan, which is long and narrow.
		Hualien also has an night market, notably at the intersection of Kungcheng and Chungshan roads, and on Nanping Beach.
	www.orientaltravel.com /province/city/Hualien.htm (469 words)

	Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net
		A representative of the Hualien County Government, the director of the Bureau of Society, Su Guo-jen, expressed that Falun Gong is composed of good people around the world, and emphasizes "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," but suffers severe persecution in China.
		County Councilor Liu Hsiao-mei expressed that through the incident of Lin Hsiao-kai, what is most precious for a person is freedom and what people should cherish most is human rights.
		County Councilor Chou Li-gen expressed that at an exchange activity between Taiwan and the Mainland, one member of the Taiwan delegation was listed as a person who was not welcome.
	clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2003/11/9/42085.html (795 words)

	CommonWealth Magazine
		Thanks to Hualien County's non-toxic agriculture, young folks from other parts, local youths returning from other areas, and old farmers that have lived here all their lives are able to live out their dreams cultivating Hualien's pristine land in an industry only recently considered moribund.
		With approximately one-quarter of its population engaged in agriculture, Hualien qualifies as a major agricultural county, yet for ages local farmers were put at a disadvantage by the relative inaccessibility of the area.
		Jiang Yu-bao, dark-skinned with a wry smile, is a 42 year-old native of Fengtien Village in Hualien County's Shoufeng Township.
	www.cw.com.tw /english/article/348132.jsp (2969 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The 64-year-old Hsieh, from Hualien's Shoufeng township, has previously served at the central government level in prominent positions such as secretary-general to the Executive Yuan and head of the Council of Labor Affairs as well as being a chief adviser to former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝).
		Hsieh Shen-shan, center, the blue camp's candidate in the Hualien County commissioner by-election, accompanied by his wife and high-level party officials from the KMT and the PFP, yesterday expresses his appreciation to Hualien's voters after winning the commissioner seat.
		Nevertheless the relatively undeveloped isolated county cannot be taken as representative of Taiwan as a whole and its significance for the presidential election next March has been be overrated.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/front/archives/2003/08/03/2003062074/print (542 words)

	Hualien County Stone Sculptural Museum
		We expect to carve Hulien into a landmark of stone sculpturing tourism city by expanding the traditional museum to an outdoor exhibition.
		Hualien is located at the earth plates interlocking zone, owning rich mineral resources that attracted many stone sculpturing artists to settle.
		A group of sculpturing fellows formed âHualien Stone Sculpturing Associationâ in 1992 to be the first stone sculpturing art group in Taiwan.
	stone.hccc.gov.tw /en/index.htm (206 words)

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		This county health care is developed, can trace back in the first year of an era of interconnected system declare (1909; Japan manage one year tomorrow), ' colored lotus harbour Room ' establish, drawing room put police service lesson divide into hygiene department, this beginning, hygiene of administrative organ.
		And then ' the tuberculosis dispensary of Hualian County ' is established on August 15, 45.
		Because this office business and province set up and spend the need that the lotus hospital extend in 60, allocates 150 ten thousand yuan from hygiene of provincial government, county government afford to set aside, moved into and handled official business in July of the same year.
	www.hlshb.gov.tw /new_hlshb/english1.htm (112 words)

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		The defeat suffered by the Democratic Progressive Party in yesterday's by-election for Hualien County magistrate exposed its need to "re-transform" itself back into a force for the promotion of citizen participation instead of acting as a "top-down" ruling party.
		But the demographics of the sparsely populated county - in which voters of the Hokhlo, Hakka, mainlander and indigenous ethnicity each compose roughly a quarter of the population - should caution against any leap to the conclusion that the results demonstrate a nationwide swing against the DPP.
		While the usual tactics employed by the DPP in opposition of mobilizing citizens to monitor election fraud generally encouraged participation, Yu's methods served mainly to annoy Hualien citizens with disruptions from police identity checks and spark feuds with local prosecutors.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TN/2003/TN-080303.htm (673 words)

	Revitalization and Growth Among Tribal Churches in the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan
		The establishing of a Bible School at Hualien in 1946 was crucial for training of leadership for the newlyemerging aborigine churches.
		Churches in Kaohsiung County and on the East Coast were influenced by Rev. Lin Chenghsi of the East Coast Paiwans.
		The churches in Hsinyi Hsiang, Nantou County were deeply divided for a time over the forms of worship and the validity (or lack of it) of visions and interpretations by the visionaries.
	members.aol.com /taimission/revital.htm (4096 words)

	Hualien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Hualien City (花蓮市;) is the capital of Hualien County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China.
		According to The Record of Hualien County (花蓮縣志), the place was originally called Qilai (奇萊), but this name was abandoned by the Japanese in early 20th century because it sounds like "despice" in Japanese and used Hualien instead.
		Hualien is an approximate homonym of Huilang (洄瀾), which means "recurring waves (of the Pacific Ocean)".
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Hualien.htm (468 words)

	The History - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan
		However, the mountain townships in Pingtung, Taitung, and Hualien counties are left unchanged.
		November 14, the ninth mayor and county chief elections and the seventh provincial assembly elections are held.
		January 16, the tenth county (city) council and town/township chief elections are held.
	www.atayal.org /History10.asp (2494 words)

	Welcome to FreshPlaza
		As the largest and the least populated county in Taiwan, Hualien is known for its natural beauty, which has largely been spared the scars of industrialization because of its remote location on the eastern side of the Central Mountain Range.
		Unlike other farming counties, the adverse effects of chemical fertilizers and pesticides have not yet made themselves felt, and some Hualien farmers are reaping the rewards of their recent foray into organic farming.
		It was coined by the government of Hualien County to describe its unique form of organic farming, since existing terms such as organic farming, biological farming and ecological farming each have their own established definitions and connotations.
	www.freshplaza.com /2006/10oct/2_tw_organic.htm (949 words)

	Hualien County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hualien County (Chinese: 花蓮縣; pinyin: Hūaliánxiàn; Wade-Giles: Hua-lien-hsien; Taiwanese POJ: Hoa-liân-kōan) is the largest and least populated county in Taiwan.
		Hualien was one of the last places on Taiwan to be settled by the Han Chinese, because it is isolated in location.
		This page was last modified 15:55, 8 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hualien_County (109 words)

	Political_divisions_of_the_Republic_of_China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		There are a number cities and counties which are similarly named, but in the ROC administrative scheme, they are completely separate and unconnected.
		In most cases, the area designated as the city is much smaller than than the actual metropolitan area, in contrast with the situation on mainland China where the administrative city tends to be larger than the actual metropolitan area.
		Many of the cities have a political geography which may be very different from its surrounding counties, making the prospect of consolidation to be very politically charged.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Political_divisions_of_the_Republic_of_China (858 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Taiwan spared casualties in latest quake but fears heightened (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Although the latest tremor was felt all over the island, damage reports were limited to power cuts and a damaged bridge in the eastern counties of Taitung and Hualien.
		In Hualien county power supplies were cut to 1,000 homes after the quake struck at 1:53 a.m.
		State radio Broadcasting Corporation of China said that in Hualien and neighbouring Taitung county, near the epicentre, some 5,000 homes were without power for several hours and 40 computers in a securities firm in Hualien fell to the ground during the shake.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/5f5ec7e120e5445ec125681d004bb6d9 (526 words)

	Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net - Taiwan: Hualien County Council Passes Resolution Condemning the CCP's Live Organ ...
		She hoped that the Hualien County Council and County Government would pay close attention to the issue and collectively condemn the CCP's atrocities against Falun Gong practitioners.
		She also suggested that the county's Health Department warn the public not to receive organ transplantation from Mainland China and stop such inhumane conduct by the CCP.
		Following the resolutions to condemn the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong by Chiayi County, Yilan County, Keelung and Tainan, this is the fifth resolution from local Taiwan governments to express their voice of justice.
	www.clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2006/6/9/74285.html (486 words)

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