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	Matsu Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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).
		After the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan in 1949, the ROC retained the part of Lienchiang County offshore (and the entire Kinmen County as well).
		The common romanization used in the ROC is Wade-Giles (Lienchiang) while the PRC uses pinyin (Lianjiang).
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/m/ma/matsu_islands.html (683 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The People First Party (PFP)-controlled Lienchiang County Government has decided to temporarily call off a plan to survey its residents on whether the county's name should be changed to Matsu, a county official said yesterday.
		As there is a Lienchiang County in both China and Taiwan, the county government was considering changing the name of the Taiwan county to avoid shipments and mail being misdirected.
		Taiwan's Lienchiang County is administratively under the Republic of China's Fukien Province.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/taiwan/archives/2003/09/18/2003068267/print (381 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fujian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jyuguang (莒光鄉; Pinyin: Jǔguāng Wade-Giles: Chü³-kuang²) is a township of Lienchiang County, Republic of China (Taiwan).
		Recent archaeological discoveries demonstrate that Fujian (especially the northern coastal region around Fuzhou) had entered the Neolithic Age by the middle of the 8th millennium BP (6th millennium BC).
		Quemoy County is nominally controlled by Quanzhou prefecture-level city, but it is administered in its entirety by the Republic of China on Taiwan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fujian (10155 words)

	MATSU ISLANDS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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: LiÃ¡njiāng), Fukien Province of the Republic_of_China (ROC, now 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).
		As part of Fukien, Matsu Islands were not colonised by Japan, as the island of Taiwan and the Pescadores did.
	velocipay.com /Matsu_Islands (738 words)

	Matsu Islands: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Matsu Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Matsu Islands (馬祖列島; or less frequently, 馬祖群島 Pinyin: Mázǔ) are a minor archipelago of 19 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait administered as part of Lienchiang County (連江 Pinyin: Lianjiang), 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 adminstration for that jurisdiction (See: Lianjiang County).
		All townships, except Chukuang, are named after the largest island in its jurisdictional area, but most townships also include other islets.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ma/Matsu-Islands.html (661 words)

	City
		The picture shows the park and vegetable patches in front of the county government building and the blue of the Taiwan Straits in the distance.
		Nangan is the largest island and the county's political, economic, cultural, and educational center.
		Lienchiang County's major government agencies are located in Jieshou Village of Nangan Township.
	twcam.www.gov.tw /webcam/english/city/main.jsp?view_id=114&belong_id=25&who=view (196 words)

	Matsu Islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After the (An advocate of national independence of or a strong national government) Nationalists retreated to Taiwan in 1949, the ROC retained the part of Lienchiang County offshore (and the entire (Click link for more info and facts about Kinmen County) Kinmen County as well).
		The common Romanization used in the ROC is (Click link for more info and facts about Wade-Giles) Wade-Giles (Lienchiang) while the PRC uses (Click link for more info and facts about pinyin) pinyin (Lianjiang).
		All townships, except (Click link for more info and facts about Jyuguang) Jyuguang, are named after the largest island in its jurisdictional area, but most townships also include other islets.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Matsu_Islands.htm (1047 words)

	CNA-060400
		Tsai and her entourage visited the Matsu Defense Command (MDC), where they were briefed by officials on the current status of Matsu's military defense.
		Liu of Lienchiang County recommended that the new government amend several inadequate regulations to enable the implementation of the "mini three links", which he said are sorely needed by residents of Kinmen and Matsu.
		Liu said that the Lienchiang County government has already drawn up a temporary statute for commercial links between the Matsu area and mainland China.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /CNA/CNA-060400.htm (578 words)

	MAC deals blow to Matsu 'links accord' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kuomintang legislator for Matsu, Tsao Erh-chung, signed a civil exchange accord between Matsu and Mawei on behalf of Lienchiang County, the official name for the Matsu archipelago, on January 28.
		Liu Li-chun, Lienchiang County chief magistrate, said the accord aimed to foster limited trade and transport links with the mainland - dubbed the "mini links" - which have been cold shouldered by Beijing.
		He said the accord was considered a "people to people exchange" and did not carry an official or legal mandate.
	www.taiwanheadlines.com /20010216/20010216p7.html (478 words)

	Outlying islands have bad drinking water: EPA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The two worst areas are Kinmen County and Lienchiang County (the Matsu island group).
		On Taiwan proper, the incidence of poor tap water in both Kaohsiung County and Kaohsiung City is relatively high.
		Kinmen and Lienchiang counties suffer from poor quality water supplies, it is thought, because the handing of wastewater by water treatment plants is faulty, and because of poor desalination of seawater.
	www.taiwanheadlines.com /20010822/20010822s4.html (259 words)

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		Taiwan has decided to partially resume the "three mini-links" with China in view of the decrease in the number of severe acute respiratory syndrome cases reported on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in recent weeks.
		The Mainland Affairs Council announced its decision yesterday in order for businessmen on the two outlaying islands of Kinmen and Lienchiang to resume business with their counterparts in Xiamen and Fuzhou.
		The "Three mini-links" were halted late April after some patients and medical staff at Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital were found to have contracted SARS from patients who had recently visited China.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TN/2003/TN-062003.htm (356 words)

	MAINLAND CHINESE FISHING VESSELS MASSING OFF MATSU ISLANDS
		Matsu, March 24 (CNA) Mainland Chinese iron-hulled fishing vessels have been reported to be massing in the waters off Tungyin, one of the Republic of China-controlled outlying Matsu Islands, causing concern among island residents.
		Liu Li-chun, magistrate of Lienchiang County which includes the Matsu islands, went to Tungyin on Friday to get a first-hand understanding of the situation.
		Liu said the number of iron-hulled vessels, each of which was estimated at 100 metric tons, had reached 240 as of 11:30 a.m.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/taiwan/2000/e-03-24-00-29.htm (254 words)

	Taiwan Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Named after the goddess" Matzu", Matzu Archipelago is located northwestward by west in Taiwan Strait, which is the very water Matzu had saved many sailors' lives.
		Matzu is subordinate to Lienchian County of Fuchien Province, facing the river mouths of Minchiang (Min River), Lienchiang (Lien River), and Luoyuan Bay.
		Four villages and five islands, including Nangang (Southern Rod), Beigang (Northen Rod), Juguang, Dungyin, are the components of Matzu, which is the north-most front of Taiwan-Penghu-Kinmen-Matzu free zone, scarcely holding a stream away from Mainland China.
	www.asia-planet.net /taiwan/lienchiang.htm (931 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To end to the confusion, the Lienchiang County Government under Taiwan's control recently proposed surveying its residents on whether the county's name should be changed to Matsu, a name more familiar to the public.
		In 1949, the retreating KMT forces took control of the province of Taiwan and also of Kinmen and Matsu, which are part of Fujian Province.
		Chen was referring to comments by Lee that called on Taiwanese to forge a new Constitution and change the nation's name from the Republic of China to Taiwan.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/front/archives/2003/04/06/201011 (914 words)

	The China Post
		Penghu, Kinmen and Lienchiang are offshore island counties.
		Kinmen, also known as Quemoy, is an offshore island group only a mile from the mainland of China.
		Lienchiang is the county on the Island of Matsu, opposite Fuzhou, capital of China's province of Fujian.
	www.chinapost.com.tw /i_latestdetail.asp?id=31287 (186 words)

	OBC \| publications \| Chinese Crested Tern
		In recent years the central government of China eased the military regulation of the area and more birdwatchers and naturalists began to visit the area.
		The results of the survey prompted the Lienchiang County Government to define the islets as a nature reserve and in January 2000, eight islets used by breeding terns were officially designated as 'National Matzu Nature Reserve for Terns' by Central Government Council of Agriculture.
		In order to increase public awareness of conservation in the reserve, Lienchiang County Government supported a project of Wild Bird Federation of Taiwan to film the breeding terns.
	www.orientalbirdclub.org /publications/bullfeats/chincres.html (1071 words)

	Why should we keep them? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The province of Fujian or Fukien, within whose jurisdiction are the two counties of Kinmen or Quemoy and Lienchiang, has been part of the Republic of China in Taiwan since President Chiang Kai-shek moved his Kuomintang government from Nanjing to Taipei at the end of 1949.
		Lienchiang is the name of the county on the offshore island of Matsu, where only a couple of people live.
		Chiang considered Kinmen and Matsu strategically vital and never relinquished his control of the two island groups, both only a couple of miles off the Chinese coast.
	www.npf.org.tw /PUBLICATION/NS/094/NS-C-094-039.htm (445 words)

	Endangered Chinese tern found in Matsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To protect the newly discovered birds, Lienchiang County Chief Magistrate Liu Li-chyun told The China Post: "We will ask for assistance from the Coast Guard Command and Mainland Affairs Council to ensure the isle is undisturbed."
		Protecting the few remaining birds is a challenge as the animals are raided by fishermen for eggs and sometimes for the plumage.
		The latest discovery has attracted major international wild bird organizations and news media to contact the Lienchiang County Government, which administers civilian affairs in the Matsu Islands area, to produce a special film introducing the rare bird.
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20000808/20000808s2.html (427 words)

	MATSU RESIDENTS CONCERNED ABOUT PLANNED TROOP REDUCTION
		Chen Shu-lien, president of the Matsu Chamber of Commerce, and several senior executives of the organization paid a visit to Lienchiang County Magistrate Chen Shui-sheng Thursday to express their concern about the MND's troops reduction plan.
		Worse still, he said, Matsu's economic development will also be seriously affected if the number of garrison troops is further trimmed.
		The Matsu island group is under the jurisdiction of the Lienchiang County Government.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/taiwan/2005/taiwan-050826-cna01.htm (350 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Those in Matzu can consult the Matzu Daily, a newspaper distributed by the Lienchiang County Government.
		Ferry Services are available from Nankan to the outlying islands of Lienchiang County.
		For passengers departing from Nankan it takes ten minutes to Peikan, an hour to Chukuang, and two hours to Tungin, but aware that sailing are often canceled when the sea is too rough.
	202.39.225.133 /nsa2002/en/matzu/main4.htm (282 words)

	Matsu Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Chinese (Wade-Giles) Ma-tsu Tao or (Pinyin) Mazu Dao, also called Nankan small island under the jurisdiction of Taiwan in the East China Sea, lying off the Min River estuary of mainland China and about 130 miles (210 km) northwest of Chi-lung (Keelung), Taiwan.
		Matsu is the main island of a group of 19, the Matsu Islands, which constitute Lien-kiang (Lienchiang) hsien (county).
		The island has a hilly terrain of igneous rock and a monsoonal subtropical climate.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051415?&query=matsu&ct= (818 words)

	Islas De Matsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Después de que los nacionalistas retiraran a Taiwán en 1949, el ROC conservó la parte del condado de Lienchiang costa afuera (y del condado entero de Kinmen también).
		El Romanization común usado en el ROC es Vadea -Giles (Lienchiang) mientras que el PRC utiliza el pinyin (Lianjiang).
		En conjunto, hay 22 aldeas de Lienchiang, que se dividen más a fondo en 137 vecindades (lín).
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/is/Islas%20De%20Matsu.htm (842 words)

	List of Taiwanese counties and cities by population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Data is current as of May 31, 2004 and was sourced from the Ministry of the Interior.
		Kinmen and Lienchiang are under the jurisdictions of Fuchien province, instead of Taiwan province.
		List of Taiwanese counties and cities by area
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Taiwanese_counties_and_cities_by_population (116 words)

	FIRST DAY OF VOTE RECOUNT PROCEEDS SMOOTHLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, attorneys from both sides agreed that this unwitting mistake by election workers should not affect the validity of the ballots.
		The frontline county of Lienchiang, where there were 4,426 ballots cast, was the only county to finish the recount on the first day.
		Eight votes that were considered controversial were photocopied for the Taiwan High Court.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1132967/posts (949 words)

	Taiwan Hints At Possible Reunification With China
		For the first half of the year, Taiwan's government reported that 341 investments were made in and with China worth over US $1 billion, a 129.9 percent increase over the same period last year.
		In early June 2000, Lienchiang County (the group of Taiwanese islands closest to the mainland coast of Fujian province), approved measures to allow direct trade links with the mainland.
		The county government measures open five ports to direct trade although only Taiwan-based boats will be allowed.
	www.sinomania.com /CHINANEWS/chinataiwanmerge.htm (722 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		* Lienchiang puts brakes on survey on name change
		Liu that while some approved of the idea, a majority opposed to the proposal and questioned what immediate benefits would come of it.
		Liu some people opposed to the name-change idea believe that adding postal codes or adding "Taiwan" to addresses for mail bound for Lienchiang County could alleviate the confusion.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/taiwan/archives/2003/09/18/2003068267/wiki (690 words)

	Birding In Taiwan - Taiwanese Birding Stories
		The Chinese crested tern is one of the rarest birds in the world that until recently, was thought to be extinct.
		But thanks to Taiwan’s Executive Yuan’s Council of Agriculture and Lienchiang County Government who commissioned the Taiwan Wild Bird Federation to make a film in the Matsu Tern Conservation Area, film-maker Liang Chiei-de and
		Their discovery was confirmed by Liu Hsiao-ru, a research fellow at Academia Sinica's Insitute of Zoology who pointed out how few sightings there had been for over a century.
	www.birdingintaiwan.com /Birdingst/Story7.htm (553 words)

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