Panchiao

See also: Pan-ch'iao

English

新北市板橋區農會
Pan Chiao Farmers' Association

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 板橋 (Bǎnqiáo) Wade-Giles romanization: Pan³-chʻiao².

Proper noun

Panchiao

1. Alternative form of Banqiao
   • 1965, “Lutheranism in Asia”, in Julius Bodensieck, editor, The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church‎^[3], volume I, Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125, column 1:

     Congregations consist mainly of Mandarin-speaking refugees from the mainland but Taiwanese are not excluded. Student centers were established at Taipei, Panchiao, and Tainan for Bible study, fellowship, and personal counseling.

   • 1970, Martin M. C. Yang 楊懋春, Socio-Economic Results of Land Reform in Taiwan‎^[4], Honolulu: East–West Center Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 96–97:

     Secondly, figure the percentage of the area's total numbers represented by each category in each township. For example, we found that the respective total numbers of the (A), (B), (C), and (D)⁸ farm households for the Panchiao and Shulin townships in the high-economic land-class area of the Taipei-Yilan region were 621 and 377; 483 and 571; 727 and 401; 359 and 412, respectively and that the total numbers of the whole area were 998, 1054, 1128, and 771, respectively.⁹ The two townships' percentages in the Panchiao-Shulin area's total numbers of the various farm households were 62.2 and 37.8; 45.7 and 54.3; 64.4 and 35.6; 41.3 and 58.7, respectively.¹⁰

   • 1980 January 6, “ROC GREETS SELF-RELIANT YEAR”, in Free China Weekly‎^[5], volume 21, number 1, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     Some 300 schoolchildren, led by their teacher, jogged to Taipei from suburban Panchiao to take part in the ceremony, while a group of citizens from the coastal spa resort of Chiaohsi in Ilan county arrived aboard chartered buses.

   • 1994 July, Robert Storey, “North Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit‎^[6], 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177, column 2:

     The Lin Gardens (☏ 9653061) are in the suburb of Panchiao (bǎnqiáo), south-west of Taipei proper.

   • 1995 February 3, “Pipeline Fire Injures 12, Destroys 54 Homes”, in AP News‎^[7], archived from the original on 29 September 2022:

     A leaky natural gas pipeline caused a spectacular fire that engulfed a district of Taipei, injuring 12 people and destroying 54 homes.
     Police said the gas flow wasn’t cut until more than an hour after the initial explosions Thursday in the commercial and residential area in suburban Panchiao.

   • 2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su‎^[8], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:

     Making the run from Taipei to Panchiao every day to sell the gold-colored paper, he scraped together a meager livelihood.

   • 2003 August 24, “President Chen Hosts a State Banquet in Honor of Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo”, in 中華民國總統府 [Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)]‎^[9], archived from the original on 14 October 2022‎^[10]:

     Chen also hosted a state banquet in the evening in Panchiao, Taipei County in honor of Portillo who arrived in Taiwan Wednesday to participate in the fourth summit of the heads of states and governments of the ROC, Central American nations and the Dominican Republic that wrapped up in Taipei Thursday.

   • 2010 August 27, “Taiwan boss sentenced for forcing Muslims to eat pork”, in NDTV‎^[11], archived from the original on 9 October 2015:

     Chang Wen-lin was sentenced for coercion after she confessed to pushing the three women, all from Indonesia, to eat the meat, which is considered strictly taboo in Islam, according to the Panchiao district court in Taipei county.

   • 2014 May 27, “Parents of Taiwan's subway attacker call for his death”, in The Straits Times‎^[12], archived from the original on 24 October 2020:

     A spokesman for the Panchiao district court said the suspect had admitted his guilt but declined to reveal further details.

   • 2014 October 30, Aries Poon, “Former Ting Hsin Executives Indicted Amid Cooking Oil Scandal”, in Wall Street Journal‎^[13], archived from the original on 18 July 2015:

     Local vendors from traditional markets display protest signs to boycott Wei Chuan Foods, a subsidiary of Ting Hsin International, during a demonstration in Panchiao district, New Taipei City on October 14, 2014.

   • 2015 February 13, “Q２：Is there any free legal advice available?”, in Taiwan New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office‎^[14], archived from the original on 04 August 2020‎^[15]:

     This Office works with Legal Aid Foundation, Panchiao Branch, and offers free legal advice attorney services at the 11th Counter in our Service Center, providing more effective legal assistance for indigent litigants and disadvantaged groups, particularly new immigrants, battered women, labor workers, and youths.

   • 2018 September 8, “Going straight: Taiwan ex-gangster turns noodle chef”, in Jakarta Post‎^[16], archived from the original on 12 September 2015:

     Yen Wei-shun, a former criminal turned noodle shop owner for charity, preparing food at his noodle shop in Panchiao district, New Taipei City

   • 2021, Tzen-Ying Ling, “Investigating the malleable socioeconomic resilience pathway to urban cohesion: a case of Taipei metropolitan area”, in Environment, Development and Sustainability‎^[17], volume 23, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Besides Taipei City itself, the Taipei metropolitan area consists of the townships and rural district jurisdictions of 1. Taipei City: 12 districts are designated metropolitan core; 2. New Taipei City: 29 districts which include Panchiao district with 550,000 persons and Oolai district with an area 55 times more considerable than Panchiao but only accounting for 5000 residents; 3. Keelung City: 7 districts on the eastern side of Taipei City, surrounded by New Taipei City on three sides, and the ocean on the eastern side of the city (Fig. 2).

   • 2022 May 27, Chung-Chieh Wang et al., “A modelling study of an extreme rainfall event along the northern coast of Taiwan on 2 June 2017”, in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics‎^[18], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 June 2022, page 6:

     The sounding observation made at Panchiao (near Taipei) in northern Taiwan at 1200 UTC 1 June (Fig. 4) showed a prefrontal environment that was well mixed in the PBL below 900 hPa in the early evening (2000 LST), consistent with the strong vertical wind shear near the surface (and Figs. 2a and 3).

   • (Can we date this quote?), “World's Top 100 Paper Companies『Cheng Loong Corporation (CLC)』 Vietnam Branch Adopts EXCELL's Advanced Weighbridge Solution”, in Cheng Loong Corporation‎^[19], archived from the original on 05 October 2022:

     Headquartered in Panchiao District, New Taipei City, we have 5 paper mills and 19 box plants in Taiwan, China, and Vietnam and distribute products worldwide.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Panchiao.

Translations

Banqiao — see Banqiao

Further reading

• Panchiao, Pan-ch'iao, Pan-chiao, Pan-Chiao, Pan-Ch'iao, Panch'iao, Pan Chiao, Pan Ch'iao, PanChiao at the Google Books Ngram Viewer. (Archived)
• “Panchiao, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Panchiao”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.