1973 June 24, Ping-chiang Wu, “Kinmen has 2 other Ks -- Kaolin and Kaoliang”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報][1], volume XIV, number 24, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
Proceeds from the sales of kaolin and kaoliang go to the coffers of the Kinmen County Government. They make up half its total annual income.
2007 February 14, Ralph Jennings, “Chinese tourists flock to Taiwan's Kinmen island”, in Reuters[2], archived from the original on 10 July 2016[3]:
Kinmen County, an island chain with a population of 76,000, is catering to Chinese tourists by converting military facilities into tourist traps and building museums with wartime themes.
2010 March 15, “Provincial Govt. Justified(1) Building of Kinmen Bridge”, in Walker, transl., edited by Patti, Kinmen Daily News[4], archived from the original on 29 August 2019[5]:
The entire budget for building the bridge is 5.7 billion, with one-third held by Kinmen county government.
2015 February 4, Calum MacLeod, Melanie Eversley, John Bacon, “Death toll rises to 26 in Taiwan plane crash caught on video”, in USA Today[6], archived from the original on 04 February 2015:
Kinmen County Magistrate Chen Fuhai had a lucky escape when his meetings Wednesday in Taipei forced a delay to a later flight, the Apple Daily reported.
2015, Alan Taylor, “Taiwan's Kinmen Islands, Only a Few Miles From Mainland China”, in The Atlantic[7], archived from the original on 10 October 2015[8]:
Shiyu, or Lion Islet, part of Kinmen County, one of Taiwan’s offshore islands, seen in front of Xiamen, China, on September 8, 2015.
2022 April 11, Kayleigh Madjar, “Deployment of short-range defense systems moved up”, in Taipei Times[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 April 2022, Front Page, page 1[10]:
The army and navy have purchased six sets of the short-range weapons systems to be in part deployed on Lienchiang County’s Dongyin Island (東引) and Kinmen County’s Wuchiu Island (烏坵).
2022 April 19, Yu-fu Chen, Kayleigh Madjar, “Xi might invade Kinmen to create a distraction: official”, in Taipei Times[11], archived from the original on 18 April 2022[12]:
A Chinese invasion of Kinmen County or another outlying island is “very possible” as Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) looks to divert attention from domestic troubles and fulfill his perceived historical duty, although such a move is unlikely to result in international sanctions if Taiwan proper remains untouched, an official familiar with cross-strait affairs said.
2022 May 22, Yu-ting Chen, Lee Hsin-Yin, “CORONAVIRUS/Taipei mayor in home isolation after positive COVID-19 rapid test”, in Focus Taiwan[13], archived from the original on 22 May 2022, Politics:
Should his PCR test also come back positive, Ko will become the second local government head in Taiwan to catch the virus after Kinmen County Magistrate Yang Cheng-wu (楊鎮浯), who tested positive around a week ago.
2022 August 5, Amy Chang Chien, John Liu, Paul Mozur, “As Missiles Fall, Generations Split on Taiwan’s Relationship With China”, in The New York Times[14], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-05, China-Taiwan Tensions[15]:
KINMEN COUNTY, Taiwan — The San Jiao Fort cafe on Kinmen Island may well be the best place in Taiwan to watch for the threat of invasion by China.[…] A rusting tank on the beach in Kinmen County, Taiwan.Credit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times Amy Chang Chien reported from Kinmen County, John Liu reported from the Matsu Islands and Paul Mozur reported from Taipei.
2022 August 30, Gladys Tsai, Jorge Engels, Jennifer Deaton, “Taiwan fires warning shots at unidentified drone near islands”, in CNN[16], archived from the original on 30 August 2022[17]:
Taiwanese soldiers on Tuesday fired flares at three unidentified drones that flew near Kinmen County, an offshore grouping of islands, before firing warning shots at one drone which re-entered the area above one of the islands, according to the Kinmen Defense Command.
[1908, M. Kennelly, transl., Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire and Dependencies[18], Shanghai: T'usewei Press, pages 277–278:
Islands. - Rocky and bare, they are nearly all inhabited by fishermen whose boats go far out to sea. The most important is the island of Amoy, though it is not the largest. The Samsa or Sansha三沙group, including the upper上三都 (shangsantu) and lower下三部 (hsiasantu) islets, Hait'an海壇island, Quemoy or Kinmên金門 (golden harbour) island, T'ungshan銅山, and White dog island, are largest.]
5. Chi Govt wishes to call attn of US Govt again to fact that Chi Govt is at present maintaining positions on a nr of islands such as Lintin and Lema Islands off Canton, Kinmen Island off Amoy, Matsu Island off Foochow, Tachen Islands off Chekiang Province, etc. These island positions, together with those on the Pescadores, form part of the defense of Taiwan. They are guarded by considerable nr of ground troops with the support of air and naval forces. They have been, however, under constant attacks by Chi Commies, and Chi milit command feels obliged to resist these attacks in self-defense. Chi Govt will appreciate it if US Govt wld indicate its views regarding the matter.
After the Hsuchow-Pengpu Battle,* with the exception of the battles fought on Tengpu Island and Kinmen Island,** Government troops put up no determined fight, and, as a result, province after province on the mainland fell into Communist hands.
Have you any further word concerning Gladys Aylward, "The Small Woman," and her moving picture? GEORGIA MRS. A.G. No further word other than press releases concerning this picture. But Gladys Alyward herself recently conducted a three-week preaching mission on Free China's first line of defense, the off-shore island of Kinmen. In her meetings with the troops, scores signified their desire to accept Christ as their Savior.
"The growth of Kinmen in the past few years can be described as outstanding example fo the important achievements of the Republic of China. The living conditions of the 45,000 people on Kinmen today present a striking[…]
The Exchange facilities are located on Taiwan wherever there is a major U. S. military installation. The U. S. serviceman is seldom far from a retail store, barbershop, cafeteria, or whatever he needs in the line of exchange services. These services begin on the northern shore of Taiwan at Keelung, which is the port of entry for all exchange merchandise. From there, the goods are moved south to outlets at Taipei, Taichung, Kung Kuan, Chia Yi, Tainan and Kaohsiung. Oluanpi, approximately 300 miles away, is the terminal of the Navy Exchange island supply line on the southern tip of the island. Two offshore islands, Kinmen and Matsu, also have exchange outlets and must be kept stocked.
The Quemoy complex comprises Quemoy, Little Kinmen and 12 islets. They are located at the mouth of Amoy bay and interdict communist sea traffic. Its total area is only 175 square kilometers.
1980 April 27, “Self-government system in ROC model for mainland reconstruction”, in Free China Weekly[25], volume XXI, number 16, Taipei, page 1:
The construction budget will also include an allocation for the offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu.
KINMEN THE little island of Kinmen, three miles off the Chinese coast, must be the world's most heavily defended. . . . This week it was learnt that in March China's military leaders plan "Operation Kinmen", a simulated invasion of the island, on the eve of Taiwan's first election for the presidency in which all adult Taiwanese will be able to vote. On Kinmen itself, the Taiwanese are declining to panic.
Kinmen features an amazing collection of mostly reconstructed Ming and Qing dynasty architecture. The labour of soldiers plus the government's financial largesse has turned Kinmen into a place of very orderly design.
2000, Shui-Bian Chen, “Learning and Transformation”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan[28], Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page [29]:
As Taipei mayor, I led a delegation of medical professionals, including the Taipei City Department of Health, to the offshore island of Kinmen to show concern for the shortage of medical supplies on the front line.
The PLA had landed several battalions on the beaches and suffered immediate counterattacks by the Nationalist “Kinmen Bears” riding in American M5 A1 tanks for which the Communists had no counter. Fifteen thousand men had died in less than three days. The victory left Kinmen itself a hallowed ground in the minds of the Taiwanese.
2020, Gerry Shih, “On China’s front line, emerging Cold War haunts battle-worn Taiwanese islands”, in The Washington Post[32], archived from the original on 10 September 2020[33]:
Arguments over Kinmen's relationship with China swing between "accusing someone of either jeopardizing the most crucial geopolitical relationship of all or committing treason," said Michael Szonyi, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the author of "Cold War Island," a book about Kinmen. "Virtually every local issue on Kinmen, no matter how small, gets linked to the larger geopolitical context of how to relate to a rising and changing China," Szonyi said. "These are exactly the same questions that Taiwan, that Africa and Latin America, that even the United States are increasingly grappling with."
2021 November 5, David Lague, Maryanne Murray, “T-DAY: The Battle for Taiwan”, in Reuters[34], archived from the original on 05 November 2021[35]:
ACTION President Xi and his top commanders decide that Beijing will seize the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, about six kilometers from the Chinese port city of Xiamen on the coast of Fujian Province and home to about 140,000 people.
2022 January 26, “Mainland-Taiwan electricity project under construction: spokesperson”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[36], archived from the original on 2022-11-26[37]:
A power generation project that aims to supply electricity to Kinmen in Taiwan is under construction in Fujian, a coastal province in the Chinese mainland, a mainland spokesperson said Wednesday.[…] To address resource shortages in Kinmen and Matsu, the Chinese mainland has promoted infrastructure connectivity projects involving water supply, electricity, gas and building bridges to link coastal areas in Fujian with the two offshore islands. By the end of 2021, about 17.03 million tonnes of water had been supplied to Kinmen, accounting for 73 percent of its water demand, since a Fujian-Kinmen water supply project was put into operation in August 2018.
2022 March 18, Yimou Lee Lee, Ben Blanchard, “EXCLUSIVE China sails carrier through Taiwan Strait hours before Biden-Xi call -source”, in Gerry Doyle, editor, Reuters[38], archived from the original on 18 March 2022[39]:
The source, who was not authorised to speak to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Shandong sailed close to the Taiwan-controlled island of Kinmen, which sits directly opposite the Chinese city of Xiamen, and was shadowed by a U.S. warship. "Around 10:30 a.m. the CV-17 appeared around 30 nautical miles to the southwest of Kinmen, and was photographed by a passenger on a civilian flight," the source said, referring to the Shandong's official service number.
2022 April 25, “Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor, Taiwan’s Only Distillery Established During War Time, Celebrates 70th Anniversary”, in AP News, PR Newswire[40], archived from the original on 25 April 2022[41]:
Based on the island of Kinmen in Taiwan, Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor Inc was established in 1952.
2022 August 5, Amy Chang Chien, John Liu, Paul Mozur, “As Missiles Fall, Generations Split on Taiwan’s Relationship With China”, in The New York Times[42], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-05, China-Taiwan Tensions[43]:
KINMEN COUNTY, Taiwan — The San Jiao Fort cafe on Kinmen Island may well be the best place in Taiwan to watch for the threat of invasion by China.[…] Chiang Chung-chieh, the co-owner of San Jiao Fort cafe on Kinmen Island, Taiwan, said he would fight if China tried to take Taiwan by force.[…] A handful of people on the Taiwanese islands near China did catch a glimpse of the drills. On Kinmen, Chiu Yi-hsuan, a 39-year-old owner of an independent bookstore, said she felt a shock wave on Thursday. “At first I thought it was thunder, then I realized it wasn’t,” she said.
2022 August 31, Frances Mao, “Taiwan fires live rounds at drones near outlying islands”, in BBC News[44], archived from the original on 31 August 2022[45]:
Kinmen is a group of islands just kilometres away from mainland China[…] The Kinmen Defense Command said three civilian drones were spotted on Tuesday evening in Dadan, Erdan and Shiyu - three Kinmen islets that are just a few kilometres away from the Chinese city of Xiamen.
2022 August 31, “Taiwan vows tough response if China enters its territory”, in Deutsche Welle[46], archived from the original on 2022-08-31, News[47]:
A recent string of drone flights from mainland China to Taiwan's offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu has further exacerbated tensions between Beijing and Taipei[…]Taiwan's military fired warning shots on Tuesday at a Chinese drone that flew into an area near Kinmen that is restricted.
If, or perhaps when, President Xi acts on his threats to take Taiwan by force, Kinmen and a handful of other outlying Taiwanese islands are likely to be the first places to be attacked, with incalculable consequences for the 140,000 civilians who live there.
2021 October 14, “Bantu Penduduk Baru Beradaptasi dengan Kehidupan Baru, Pemerintah Kabupaten Kinmen Selenggarakan Acara “Ruang Obrolan Penduduk Baru””, in National Immigration Agency[49], archived from the original on 2023-07-28, Berita[50]:
Acara yang diselenggarakan oleh Asosiasi Kemajuan Hak Perempuan Kabupaten Kinmen (社團法人金門縣婦女權益促進會) dan dengan bimbingan dari Pusat Layanan Kemakmuran Perempuan Kabupaten Kinmen ini berlangsung pada tanggal 16 dan 17 Oktober, mulai dari jam 10 pagi sampai 12 siang dan kemudian dilanjutkan pada jam 1 siang sampai 3 sore di ruang rapat pada lantai 3 Kantor Administrasi Chinning (金寧).
