Citations:Lienchiang

English citations of Lienchiang

Matsu Islands

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連江縣衛生局
Lienchiang County Health Bureau
連江縣立醫院
Lienchiang County Hospital

• 1963, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction‎^[1], Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 115:

  Matsu. JCRR in FY1964 continued to provide local farmers with seeds of superior varieties of dryland crops and vegetables, and selected five young farmers for training in cultural techniques in Taiwan. Technical assistance was given by the agricultural experiment station of the Lienchiang County Government.

• 1993, Republic of China Yearbook 1993‎^[2], Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 126:

  In 1955, this administration was assigned responsibility for Lienchiang 連江縣, Changle, and Loyuan counties. Military government was reinstated in Matsu in 1956, and various outlying islands were brought under the administration of Lienchiang County.

• 2000, Liang Chieh-teh, Chang Shou-hua, Fang Woei-horng, “Little-known Oriental Bird”, in Oriental Bird Club‎^[3], number 32, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:

  A three year project to study bird ecology in the area, coordinated by Wild Bird Federation of Taiwan (formerly Chinese Wild Bird Federation) and financed by Agriculture Improvement Bureau of Lienchiang County began in April 1996 and improved our understanding of the bird fauna.

• 2009, Daniel C. O’Neill, “The Effect of Electoral Rules on the Democratic Progressive Party’s Performance in the 2004 and 2008 Legislative Elections in Taiwan”, in CiteSeerX‎^[4], pages 22–23:

  More important, among the ten one-seat districts, there is overrepresentation, but there is underrepresentation as well. There are ten counties or cities in Taiwan having only one legislative seat branch. Indeed, several of these are cases of severe overrepresentation. At the extreme, Lienchiang County with a population of only 9,786 elects one legislator.

• 2011, Chia-Hung Hsieh et al., “Population genetic structure of the newly invasive Q biotype of Bemisia tabaci in Taiwan”, in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, volume 138, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 264, column 2:

  We collected B. tabaci Q biotype samples from eight sites (Figure 1), six of which (TTS, TMJ, TTG, TNP, TYY, and TTF) were ornamental greenhouses, one (TTN) an ornamental plant trade market, and one (TLM) a small island in Nankan Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan.

• 2017 March 20, 3:32 from the start, in Makers of Matsu’s unique kaoliang liquor look to tap into foreign markets‎^[5], Formosa Television, archived from the original on 16 April 2022‎^[6]:

  Surplus revenues from the Matsu Liquor Factory account for around 45 percent of the money raised directly by the Lienchiang County government every year. That's why County Commissioner Liu Tseng-ying has called for the distillery to double its revenues and profits.

• 2019 July 15, “Lienchiang bus”, in Taiwan Today‎^[7], archived from the original on 18 July 2019:

  A tour bus decorated with a camouflage pattern is now in service following its launch July 14 in outlying Lienchiang County as part of local government efforts to promote tourism.

• 2020, Wen Lii, “From Taiwan to the Philippines, Chinese Illegal Dredging Ships Wreak Environmental Havoc”, in The Diplomat‎^[8]:

  On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...]
  Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.

• 2021 March 19, Keoni Everington, “1st batch of AstraZeneca vaccine sent out to 57 medical institutions across Taiwan”, in Taiwan News‎^[9]:

  Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) Spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) on Friday said that delivery of the first wave of 44,500 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to 56 out of 57 medical institutions started at noon. The only exception was a medical care facility in Lienchiang County, as delivery was delayed due to weather conditions.

• 2021 June 29, Ching-yu Chao, Evelyn Kao, “Part of Matsu's Liang Island designated national archaeological site”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[10], archived from the original on 29 June 2021, Culture‎^[11]:

  The Ministry of Culture said Tuesday that it has designated four ancient areas of Liang Island in the Matsu archipelago as the Taiwan's 11th national archaeological site. Liang, a 0.35 square kilometer island in the Matsu archipelago off the east coast of China, is part of Beigan Township in Lienchiang County.

• 2021 October, Julia Yu-Fong Chang et al., “Distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of Taiwan in 2020”, in Journal of Dental Sciences‎^[12], volume 16, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC:

  The number of enrolled dental freshmen per 100,000 people in Lienchiang County was very extreme and thus was not included in some of the subsequent statistical analyses. Lienchiang County was still included in the analyses of the numbers of practicing dentists per 100,000 people and the numbers of enrolled dental freshmen per 100,000 people, as well as in the analyses of the dentist index and the dental student index.

• 2021 October 15, Alicia Chen, Lily Kuo, “Green sky at night over Taiwan’s islands heralds a different kind of squid game”, in Washington Post‎^[13], archived from the original on 15 October 2021:

  “There are at least hundreds of [Chinese] squid boats. It used to be just one or two dots of green, but now you see a complete line of green,” said Lai Wen-Chi, chief of the Fisheries and Husbandry Section of the Lienchiang county government, which oversees Matsu. Lai said vessels, which Taiwan officials say convey fishermen mostly from Fujian province, have surged in number in the past two years, with this year being the worst.[...]
  Officials have not raised the issue of the green lights, said Wang Chung Ming, deputy head of Lienchiang county, because the impact would be “very limited.”

• 2022 February 11, ““Now We Speak Our Own Languages” The Ministry of Education calls on social education institutions to promote local languages in response to International Mother Language Day”, in Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan)‎^[14], archived from the original on 21 June 2022:

  Additionally, Lienchiang County Government has established “Let’s Speak Matsu Dialect,” where people can read picture books written in Min Dong dialect through online streaming and live activities. Overall, the MOE and social education institutions are anticipating that the local people will wholeheartedly welcome these much-anticipated events.

• 2022 February 25, Bingcun Li, “Don't pollute with light”, in China Daily‎^[15], archived from the original on 18 June 2022:

  Last December, Taiwan's Lienchiang county passed the island's first legislation on light pollution control.

• 2022 April 11, Kayleigh Madjar, “Deployment of short-range defense systems moved up”, in Taipei Times‎^[16], archived from the original on 10 April 2022:

  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 14, James Lo, “Lienchiang County touts success of inaugural Matsu Biennial”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[17], archived from the original on 14 April 2022:

  Lienchiang County Magistrate Liu Cheng-ying (劉增應) said the inaugural edition raised the visibility of Matsu, and he is looking forward to meeting visitors from all over the world next fall.

• 2022 April 14, “Inaugural Matsu Biennial Wraps up on April 10”, in AP News‎^[18], archived from the original on 19 July 2022:

  Co-organized by the Lienchiang County Government and the General Association of Chinese Culture (GACC), the Matsu Biennial is a ten-year project that aims to unveil the mysteries of Matsu through art and culture. Featuring 39 artworks, 8 projects and 3 exhibition spaces, all of the art creations were created locally among 41 creative teams. Several well-known performing groups, including the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, were also invited to perform at the event.
  Lienchiang County Magistrate Liu Cheng-ying (劉增應) said that after the inaugural edition wraps up, they will commence the preparation for the next edition of the Matsu Biennial, and he is looking forward to meeting visitors from all over the world next fall.

• 2022 June 21, Katherine Wei, “First Flight Out: Matsu Islands cluster is a foggy, tranquil hideaway in Taiwan that runs on its own time”, in The Straits Times‎^[19], archived from the original on 20 June 2022:

  Matsu is formally known as Lienchiang, Taiwan’s smallest county at just under 30 km sq in all.

• 2022 July 21, Tomasz Koper, “COVID-19 (07/21): Taiwan reports 24,907 local cases, 74 deaths”, in Radio Taiwan International‎^[20], archived from the original on 21 July 2022:

  Taiwan reported 24,907 new local cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.
  If you take into account the population of each area of Taiwan, Lienchiang County is a hotspot for the virus. Twenty-one people have new cases of COVID there, out of a population of just under 13,000.

• 2022 August 1, “No, this video does not show a Chinese military threat to Taiwan ahead of Pelosi’s visit”, in France 24‎^[21], archived from the original on 01 August 2022‎^[22]:

  • Shortly before Pelosi embarked on her journey to Asia, a video showing an anti-aircraft exercise went viral on social media. Many claimed that it was a military operation that took place in the coastal area of Fujian Province, China, in order to deter Pelosi from landing in Taiwan.
  • In fact, it was an annual military exercise by Taiwan's military forces in the Matsu Islands of the Lienchiang Country^{[sic – meaning County]} in 2020.

• 2022 August 4, Keoni Everington, “Taiwan fires flares at 1st Chinese drones seen over Kinmen”, in Taiwan News‎^[23], archived from the original on 04 August 2022:

  Last week, on July 28, Taiwan's military fired flares at a Chinese drone to warn it away as it flew over the outer island of Dongyin, which is part of the Matsu Islands that comprise Lienchiang County.

Examples of 'Kinmen and Lienchiang'

(Parallel to the phraseology 'Quemoy and Matsu', in these examples, the two areas of islands are called not by the names used in the Kennedy-Nixon debates, but instead by the official English language names of the counties.)

• 1980 February 10, “Premier Sun pledges to speed farm development”, in Free China Weekly‎^[24], volume XXI, number 6, Taipei, page 1:

  Farmers' associations in Taiwan province and Kinmen and Lienchiang counties will be responsible for forming the national association over the next few months.

• 1996, T. K. Tong, edited by Winberg Chai and May-lee Chai, Historical Relations (中國大陸與臺灣 [Chinese Mainland and Taiwan: A Study of Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Relations with Documents])‎^[25], Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 46:

  With the promulgation of the Statue^{[sic – meaning Statute]} for the Security and Guidance of Quemoy, Matsu, and the Pratas and Spratly Areas on August 7, 1992, the villagers in Jinmen and Lianjiang (Lienchiang, i.e. Matsu) counties held their first elections in November 1993 respectively to have their county magistrates locally elected.

• 1999, Barry Turner, editor, China Profiled‎^[26], St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 165:

  The Fukien Provincial Government oversees the regional affairs of Kinmen County and Lienchiang County.

• 2015 August 8, “China hit by typhoon after 10 dead or missing in Taiwan”, in Washington Post‎^[27]:

  “Extreme torrential rain,” defined as 1.6 feet of precipitation in 24 hours, was reported in all parts of Taiwan, except in the outlying Kinmen and Lienchiang counties and some parts of the capital, Taipei.

• 2020 August 21, Tai-ho Lin, “Clarity in the US’ Taiwan strategy”, in Taipei Times‎^[28], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-21, Editorials, page 8‎^[29]:

  Another bill — the Taiwan Invasion Prevention Act, introduced by US Representative Ted Yoho on July 29 — would require China to renounce the use or threat of military force to invade Taiwan and authorize the US president to respond with military force to protect Taiwan under three conditions: If China were to use military force against Taiwan; if China intended to seize Taiwan-controlled areas, including Penghu, Kinmen and Lienchiang counties; and if the lives of Taiwanese, including military personnel, were threatened.

Specific Application to Areas

This section attempts to help specify the extent of the jurisdiction of Lienchiang County under Taiwan (ROC) and the concomitant extent of usage of 'Lienchiang' specifically used with reference to various areas. Issues of local government jurisdiction in the area are and have been contested. For instance, jurisdiction over Dongyin has historically been disputed by various counties. Further, the People's Republic of China claims Juguang Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan (ROC) as the Baiquan Islands, an insular part of Changle District, Fuzhou, Fujian, China (PRC) and hence not part of Lianjiang County, Fuzhou, Fujian, China (PRC)- see Matsu_Islands#Cross-Strait_relations.

Beigan in Lienchiang

• 2023 January 16, “《TAIPEI TIMES》 Technology hub Jhubei growing fastest in nation”, in Liberty Times, Taipei Times‎^[30], archived from the original on 15 January 2023‎^[31]:

  Jhubei City in Hsinchu County recorded the nation’s highest growth in absolute population over the past five years, while the highest rate of growth by percentage occurred in Lienchiang County’s Beigan Township （北竿）, according to statistics released last week by the Ministry of the Interior.

Dongyin in Lienchiang

• 2017 February 22, Guy Plopsky, Taiwan’s Cold War Fortresses‎^[32], The Diplomat, archived from the original on 22 February 2017:

  The Lienchiang County government (which administers Matsu’s 36 islands and islets) estimates that — excluding facilities still in use by Taiwan’s military — some 256 underground fortifications, tunnels, air raid shelters, and other related structures were constructed in Matsu’s four townships: Nangan, Beigan, Juguang, and Dongyin.

• 2021 December 27, Po-yang Hsiao, Kuan Jui-ping, Chang Hsiu-feng, Evelyn Kao, “Hehuanshan sees winter's heaviest snowfall so far”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[33], archived from the original on 27 December 2021:

  On Monday, the weather on the outlying islands will remain cold, with Dongyin in Lienchiang County to experience temperatures as low as 7 degrees at 2:30 p.m., while Wuchiu in Kinmen can expect temperatures of 9.3 degrees at 3:50 p.m.

• 2022 February 17, “Dongyin flyby ‘provocation’: MND”, in Taipei Times‎^[34], archived from the original on 16 February 2022:

  A Chinese civilian aircraft flying near Lienchiang County’s Dongyin Island (東引) earlier this month was likely meant as a provocation or a test of Taiwan’s combat readiness, military officials said on Tuesday.

Juguang in Lienchiang

• 1978 January 5 [1977 December 30], “PRC Vessel Collides with ROC Fishing Boat off Matsu”, in Daily Report: Asia & Pacific‎^[35], volume IV, number 3, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B 2‎^[36]:

  The 6-ton fishing boat Kuanghua 16638 was slammed by the communist vessel near the Liuchuan reefs off the coast of Chukuang and drifted toward Nanchu after the collision. Because of the alertness of its owner Li Tsu-shun and the crew, the boat successfully avoided a head-on collision with the communist vessel. The communist atrocity has drawn the keen attention of the commander of the Matsu defense district who has instructed the frontline island defenders to closely watch the movement of communist vessels. In addition, he has instructed the Lienchiang county government to aid the affected fishermen in repairing their damaged fishing boat so that they can resume fishing operations.

• 2017 February 22, Guy Plopsky, Taiwan’s Cold War Fortresses‎^[37], The Diplomat, archived from the original on 22 February 2017:

  The Lienchiang County government (which administers Matsu’s 36 islands and islets) estimates that — excluding facilities still in use by Taiwan’s military — some 256 underground fortifications, tunnels, air raid shelters, and other related structures were constructed in Matsu’s four townships: Nangan, Beigan, Juguang, and Dongyin.

• 2019 March 16, Chia-nan Lin, “Kinmen halts transport of pork due to infected swine”, in Taipei Times‎^[38], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 November 2019, Front Page, page 1‎^[39]:

  It was the third infected pig carcass found in the nation’s outlying islands, following dead hogs found in Kinmen’s Jinsha Township (金沙) in December last year and in Lienchiang County’s Jyuguang Township (莒光) in January, Council of Agriculture data showed.

• 2021 June 8, Kelvin Chen, “Taiwan's Control Yuan investigates ecological impact of China's illegal sand dredging”, in Taiwan News‎^[40], archived from the original on 08 June 2021:

  China will soon encourage Chinese sand dredging ships to anchor in an area 12 miles off the coast of Lienchiang County’s Juguang Township, he added.

• 2023 March 13, Hsin-peng [趙興鵬] Chao, “Grumbling troops show military lacks power”, in Julian Clegg, transl., Taipei Times‎^[41], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-13, Editorials, page 8‎^[42]:

  A resident of Juguang Township (莒光) in Lienchiang County (Matsu) recently took some photos of messages written in the sand on a beach.

In Fujian, PRC

• 1924 December 6 [1924 November 24], “FORCED OPIUM GROWING IN FUKIEN”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[43], volume CLII, number 2991, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 397, column 3:

  The ten counties are Putien, Sienyu, Futsing, Lienchiang, Loyuan, Ningteh, Fuan, Hsiapo, Shaoning and Futing. The names of the officials and other responsible have in nearly every case been furnished to us, and every case has been reported to the Military and Civil Governors, and in the case of Lienchiang and Futsing a report has also been made to the naval authorities at Pagoda.

• 1952 August 30, “Military Information and Flood Conditions, Foochow Area”, in CIA‎^[44]:

  4. On 17 July, 3,000 infantry troops with several artillery pieces left Foochow in the direction of Lienchiang (119-31, 26-12).
  5. Beginning on 17 July Foochow had heavy rains on consecutive days. By 20 July floods had destroyed many houses, and more than 300,000 persons were distressed.

• 1956, Army Operations in China, January 1944 - August 1945‎^[45], Office of the Chief of Military History, page 179:

  The main body of the Chinese 80th Division was entrenched in a series of defenses built at graduating heights encircling the walled city of Fuchou for a distance of approximately eight kilometers. On the morning of 2 October, the 62d Independent Mixed Brigade opened its attack. The battle raged throughout that day and part of the night. By the afternoon of the 3d, however, they had passed through Lingtou and, on the morning of the 4th, having overcome the enemy at Tangling, they advanced toward the Fuchou valley. Later that day they occupied Fuchou. Also on the 4th, the left flank detachment (one infantry battalion) which had advanced southward from Lienchiang, occupied two islands in the mouth of Lien Chiang.

• 1964 May 22, Ralph N. Clough, “Letter From the Charge to the Republic of China (Clough) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Bundy)”, in Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State‎^[46]:

  The Chinese Communist shelling of Matsu on May 16, which clearly seems to have been a reaction to GRC artillery fire from Matsu covering a raiding party launched from Matsu against Lienchiang (FCT 8622), caused me to give consideration to repeating to the GRC the warning we gave them last spring that they should not assume the US would assist the GRC should the Chicoms attack the smaller offshore islands in retaliation for raids mounted by the GRC from such islands.

• 1970 [1678], Simon Rodriguez, Ferdinand Verbiest, “First Expedition of Jesuits from the Philippines to China”, in Charles McCarthy, transl., Philippine Studies‎^[47], volume 18, number 3:

  But as for the other two Fathers on Tinghai island, they all replied together that they could easily be helped, and be brought to the mainland at night, and be safely deposited in one of the churches which we have in the outskirts of Lienchiang.

• 1973 May 11, “Taiwan Fisherman Compatriots Rescued”, in Peking Review‎^[48], volume 16, number 19, page 4:

  On April 27, 12 fishermen from a trawler of the Hsinhuatai Co. in Keelung City, Taiwan Province, that had sunk near the island of Tungyin because of an engine breakdown were rescued by fishermen of the Haifeng Brigade of the Huangchi People's Commune in Lienchiang County, Fukien Province.

• 1975, Richard Baum, Prelude to Revolution‎^[49], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

  Clearly, China's aging leader was deeply concerned about the course of economic, political, and ideological developments in his country. That there was indeed a great deal for him to be concerned about has been confirmed in a unique set of official CCP documents captured by the Chinese Nationalists during a 1964 commando raid on the Party headquarters of Lienchiang county, Fukien province.

• 2014, Pengli Zhu, Feng Huang, Fan Lin, Qiaowei Li, Yin Yuan, Zhonghai Gao, Falin Chen, “The Relationship of Retinal Vessel Diameters and Fractal Dimensions with Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk Factors”, in PLOS One‎^[50], volume 9, number 9, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

  The villages of Tailu, Beijiao, and Xiubang in the Tailu township in Lienchiang county and Kungtung, Kunghsi, Yantai, and Wenwo in Haidao township in Xiapu county in Fujian Province were randomly selected for this cross-sectional investigation, which took place from July, 2011 to November, 2011.

• 2015, Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈), translated by Carole Plackitt and Tim Casey, A New Illustrated History of Taiwan‎^[51], Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 262:

  In 1603, Chʻen Ti from Lienchiang, Fukien, China, followed General Shen Yu-jung in pursuit of pirates and fought against piracy at Tungfan (on the southwest coast of Taiwan).

Other

• 1972 March, Chi Hung, “An Old Revolutionary Base—Yesterday and Today”, in China Reconstructs‎^[52], volume XXI, number 3, Peking, →OCLC, page 25, column 2:

  Surrounded by mountains and crossed by the Lienchiang River, Hsingkuo county lies in a beautiful natural setting.