Taoyuan County Hanyu Pinyin: Taoyuan Xian; Tongyong Pinyin: Taoyuan Sian; Wade-Giles: Taoyuan Hsien; Taiwanese POJ: is a county of Taiwan, located in the northwestern part of the island, next to Taipei County. Taoyuan City is located in this county and serves as the seat of Taoyuan County.
"Taoyuan" means "garden of peaches," since the area used to have many peach blossoms. Taoyuan is the native home to the Pingpu tribe of Aborigines. It is now an important industrial region of Taiwan. Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, which serves Taipei, is inside this county.
Taoyuan County controls four township-level cities, two urban townships, and seven rural townships.
Taoyuan is primarily an industrial city and has few distinctive features. However, if you get stranded at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport overnight and don't want to pay over the odds at the airport hotel or travel the extra kilometers into Taipei, you might consider spending the night here. Despite lacking tourist sites, the city does have several large shopping malls, good coffee shops and, due a large number of overseas workers employed at local factories, also boasts several cheap South Asian eateries.
Taoyuan County Magistrate Zhu Li-Lun said during Taoyuan Quality Business Environment Forum that the Taoyuan Air City Project will help Taiwan in facing challenges in the new era and enable the country to walk out of distress. At present, the act has been approved by the Executive Yuan and sent to the Legislative Yuan for deliberation. In the future, integration of central government agencies and cooperation of local governments are still needed to implement the Taoyuan Air City Project.
The University is originally founded in 1915 in Nanking, the new capital city of the young government of the Republic of China. NCU moved to Chungking in 1937 when Sino-Japanese War broke out and returned to Nanjing in 1946. After the R.O.C. lost control of the Chinese Mainland in 1949, in Nanjing it was renamed National Nanjing University by CCP. NCU was reinstated in Taiwan in 1962, first as the National Central University Graduate Institute of Geophysics. In 1968, NCU moved to its current location in the Shuanglianpo, Taoyuan County, and was renamed the National Central University College of Science. In 1979, it was officially re-established under its current name. More recently, NCU and a few other highly regarded universities established the University System of Taiwan cooperative partnership (2002). The current president is Dr. Lou-Chuang Lee.
The university's Taoyuan County campus is situated in the northern section of the island, about 45 minutes from Taipei. The spacious, green hilltop campus, some distance away from the busy Jhongli City, offers a rare learning environment for students. NCU is only half an hour away from the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, which makes it very convenient for international travel.
Each college houses numerous research centers, such as the Center for Space & Remote Sensing Research, Hazard Mitigation & Prevention, Taiwan Economic Development, Biotechnology & Biomedical Engineering, and several boutique-style humanilities centers.
Alphabetical Listings of Hotels in Taoyuan
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