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29-664: In 2007, OEC Group Chairman Robert Han organized an ITF tournament in Taoyuan where the prize was $ 50,000 plus hotel. OEC has retroactively referred to the event as the 2007 OEC Cup Taiwan Ladies Open. In October 18–20, 2008, the OEC Group held the 2008 OEC Taipei Ladies Open, which was a WTA-sanctioned ITF $ 100,000+H tournament . held at the National Taiwan University Gymnasium and the Taipei Arena. In 2010 and 2011, it

58-540: A bastion of electronics and semiconductor manufacturing. Over 200 of Taiwan's top 500 manufacturing companies have factories in Taoyuan. Taoyuan has also led Taiwan in terms of industrial output for nine straight years. There are now 29 (registered) industrial areas with 3,696 ha (9,130 acres) of non-urban industrial land and 3,131 ha (7,740 acres) of urban industrial land. There are over 6,827 ha (16,870 acres) of land available for factories and industrial use in

87-439: A county to a special municipality. On 25 December 2014, Taoyuan County was upgraded into a special municipality of Taoyuan City ( 桃園市 ). Taoyuan is located approximately 40 km (25 mi) southwest of Taipei , in northern Taiwan, and occupies 1,220 km (470 sq mi). It is made up of low-lying plains, interconnected mountains and plateaus . Its shape has a long and narrow southeast-to-northwest trend, with

116-402: Is a special municipality located in northwestern Taiwan , neighboring New Taipei City to the north-east, Yilan County to the south-east, and Hsinchu County to the south-west. Taoyuan District is the seat of the municipal government and which, along with Zhongli District , forms a large metropolitan area . Taoyuan developed from a satellite city of Taipei metropolitan area to become

145-783: Is the central library of Taoyuan, located in Taoyuan Zhongzheng Arts and Cultural Business District. The new library building opened in December 2022. It was designed by T.C.K. Architect Engineer Planner and Azusa Sekkei  [ ja ] . It is the largest local public library in Taiwan. The Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium is home to the Rakuten Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Taoyuan also has two professional basketball teams,

174-470: Is the source of significant trichloroethylene contamination. Shihmen Reservoir is one of Taiwan's major reservoirs. Once the largest water conservancy project in Southeast Asia , visitors may find many restaurants open near the reservoir serving fresh reservoir fish delicacies. There is also a three-kilometre-long (1.9 mi) bikeway surrounding the back pond. Shimen Reservoir provides almost all of

203-444: Is used to host indoor sporting events, such as basketball and volleyball . The then-Taoyuan County is also the birthplace of Taiwanese professional golfer Yani Tseng and taekwondo athlete Chu Mu-Yen . Recent major sporting events held by Taoyuan include: The rapid transit system of the city is Taoyuan Metro and is operational since April 2017. National Highway No. 1 and 3 are nearby and connect via local highways to

232-474: The Fuxing District , Taoyuan is the one Special Municipality of Taiwan that has no Aboriginal populations, appearing on related maps as empty. Taoyuan is one of the Taiwan's top industrial and technological cities. High-tech companies including Quanta , MiTAC , Inotera , Nanya Technology , HTC , CPT and AU Optronics have all opted to build or expand their factories in Taoyuan. Taoyuan has now become

261-557: The Taiwan Railway Administration . The Taoyuan Arena , also built in 1993, is an indoor sporting arena located in Taoyuan District . The concept of its roof structure was based on the bicycle structure, the outer ring (to bear pressure) and inner tire (to bear tensile strength) of the bicycle wheels are connected by cable wires. It occupies an area of 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres) with a capacity of 15,000 spectators. It

290-690: The Taiwanese plains aborigines . In prehistory, the Ketagalan people settled in Nankan  [ zh ] . In the early years of Dutch colonization , Spanish colonization , and Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty , there were no large-scale cultivation or industrial activities. During the Qing era , a number of people from Fujian Province and Guangdong province began to immigrate into present-day Taoyuan to develop and farm

319-574: The Taoyuan Leopards of the T1 League and the Taoyuan Pauian Pilots of the P. League+ (shared with Changhua County ). The Taoyuan County Stadium, built in 1993, is a multi-use stadium used mostly for football matches that also has an athletics track . The stadium has a capacity of 30,000 spectators. It is within walking distance southwest from Taoyuan Senior High School Station of

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348-587: The Tōen area was incorporated into Shinchiku Prefecture . During the Japanese era, the staged migration policy caused Taoyuan to develop into a city with a variety of cultures. For example, temples and worship paths (currently the Taoyuan Martyrs Shrine ) symbolized cultural systems. Butokuden ( 武德殿 ) were used to represent military systems, and the old Taoyuan City Office signified political systems. After

377-492: The fourth-largest metropolitan area , and fifth-largest populated city in Taiwan. "Taoyuan" literally means "peach garden" in Chinese, since the area used to have many peach trees. Formerly a county , Taoyuan became the latest new founding special municipality in 2014. Taoyuan City is home to many industrial parks and tech company headquarters. Due to the city's proximity to Taipei , and the lower cost of living , Taoyuan has had

406-400: The city itself. National Highway No. 2 connects to Taoyuan International Airport . Bridges in the city are Luofu Bridge . Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at Dayuan District is the largest airport in Taiwan. It serves as the main international hub for China Airlines and EVA Air . Taiwan Taoyuan handled 25,114,418 passengers in 2010. It is the fifteenth-busiest air freight hub in

435-1014: The city, representing the fact that Taoyuan's development bureau is based on industry and commerce. There are also 9 sites (57 ha; 140 acres) for mixed industrial-commercial use, the most of any county and city in Taiwan. On 26 March 2010, China Airlines (Taiwan's government-owned airline ) moved into its new headquarters on the grounds of Taipei Taoyuan International Airport and in Dayuan Township in Taoyuan County (now Dayuan District, Taoyuan). EVA Air maintains its headquarters in Luzhu District . Evergreen Airlines Services Corporation, Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corp., and Evergreen Air Cargo Services Corporation, subsidiaries of Evergreen Group , are headquartered in Dayuan. On 25 December 2016, The Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency (ASVDA)

464-475: The common language status of Hakka and Formosan languages within each division. Prior to becoming a municipality on 25 December 2014, Taoyuan County used to have 6 county-administered cities (Bade, Luzhu, Pingzhen, Taoyuan, Yangmei, Zhongli), 1 urban township (Daxi), 5 rural townships (Dayuan, Guanyin, Guishan, Longtan, Xinwu), and 1 Mountain indigenous township (Fuxing). Taoyuan Main Public Library

493-401: The fastest population growth of any city in Taiwan in recent decades. The city is also home to 116,000 foreign workers , with many coming from Southeast Asia and working in factories or as household caregivers . Taoyuan International Airport , which serves the capital, Taipei and the rest of northern Taiwan, is located in this city. In ancient times, the Taoyuan plateau was the home of

522-452: The land. They planted peach trees, which, when fully bloomed in spring, were so beautiful that the people named the land Toahong ( Chinese : 桃仔園 ; pinyin : Táozǐyuán ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Thô-á-hn̂g ; lit. 'peach orchard'). In November 1901, during Japanese era , a local administrative office, Toshien Chō ( Japanese : 桃仔園廳 ) , was established in the area, and renamed Tōen Chō ( 桃園廳 ) in 1905. In 1920,

551-520: The largest ethnic groups of Taoyuan, most of whom live in northern Taoyuan (北桃園) which comprises the northern districts of Taoyuan, including Taoyuan city centre, Bade , Daxi , Dayuan , Guishan and Luzhu , and the city seat of government, Taoyuan District citycentre. The Hakka are the second-largest ethnic group in the city after the Minnan ethnicity (Hoklo) who won against the Hakkas in clan wars moved to

580-597: The poor mountainous regions in southern Taoyuan, most of the Hakka peasants live in the rural peasant village areas of southern Taoyuan (南桃園), which includes Zhongli , Pingzhen , Yangmei , Longtan , Guanyin and Xinwu districts. With more than 785,000 Hakka people, Taoyuan hosts the largest Hakka population among all of Taiwan's administrative divisions. After the Chinese Civil War , many people from mainland China (unaffectionately referred to as " Waishengren ") settled in

609-559: The race for Taoyuan County magistrate. Peng had inherited the magistrate position after Annette Lu vacated the post to serve as vice president. Chu ran for re-election in 2005 and defeated DPP challenger Pao-Ching Cheng, CEO of the Taiwan Salt Company . In 2009, John Wu of the KMT defeated his DPP opponent, Cheng Wen-tsan and became the Magistrate of Taoyuan County. In 2014, following

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638-541: The southeast in the Xueshan Range and the far end on the shores of the Taiwan Strait . There are many irrigation ponds at Taoyuan Plateau , which caused Taoyuan to earn the nickname "Thousand-pond Township" ( 千塘之鄉 ). Taoyuan has a humid subtropical climate , with mild to warm winters and hot summers, typical of northern Taiwan. As of most of the cities and urban towns of Taiwan, Minnan people (Hoklos) are one of

667-567: The then- Taoyuan County after the retreat of the nationalist government in 1949. Most of them live in military dependents' villages in Zhongli, Pingzhen and Guishan. Longgang is well known for its immigrants from Yunnan , featuring many Yunnan-style restaurants. Most Taiwanese indigenous peoples in the city live in Fuxing District , with most of them belonging to the Atayal people . Outside of

696-535: The transfer from Japan to the Republic of China, the present day-area of Taoyuan City was incorporated under Hsinchu County . In 1950, Taoyuan County was established by separating it from Hsinchu County. On 21 April 1971, Taoyuan City was made the county seat of Taoyuan County. It had 6 cities , 1 urban township and 6 rural townships. In June 2009, the Executive Yuan approved the plan to upgrade Taoyuan from

725-523: The upgrade of Taoyuan County to Taoyuan City, Cheng Wen-tsan of the DPP won the Taoyuan City mayoral election and became the city's first mayor. In 2022 Taoyuan City mayoral election , Chang San-cheng of the KMT was elected as the new mayor. Taoyuan City is divided into 12 municipal districts and 1 mountain indigenous district. The city government is located within Taoyuan District . Colors indicate

754-503: The water in Taoyuan, as well as to New Taipei City's Xinzhuang, Banqiao, and Linkou districts. The Taoyuan City Government is the municipal government of Taoyuan. The Taoyuan City Council is the elected municipal council of Taoyuan, the council composes of 60 councillors elected once every four years by single non-transferable vote. In 2001, Eric Chu of the Kuomintang defeated Democratic Progressive Party incumbent Peng Shao-Chin in

783-510: The world and thirteenth-busiest by international passenger traffic. Taipei Taoyuan International Airport currently has two terminals which are connected by two, short people movers. A third terminal and a rapid transit system linking the terminals together underground are currently under construction. Taoyuan Martyrs Shrine Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

812-661: Was called the OEC Taipei Ladies Open, and it was also sometimes referred to as the Haishuo Cup (海碩盃). In 2012, the event was upgraded to a WTA 125 event . It had attracted over 60,000 visitors. In 2013, the tournament was renamed to OEC Taipei WTA Challenger. and used that name subsequently. † – note: not considered the Taipei Open by some sources † – note: not considered the Taipei Open by some sources Taoyuan City Taoyuan ( / ˌ t aʊ juː ˈ ɛ n / )

841-495: Was inaugurated in northern Taoyuan City, in a governmental effort to foster innovation, promote the Internet of Things (IoT) sector and attract top-class technology talent. The Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan aimed to transform Taiwan into an R&D hub for the IoT sector as well as a global center of entrepreneurship. A former RCA facility is located in the city. The RCA facility

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