# Dalin, Chiayi

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**Dalin Township** (traditional Chinese: 大林鎮; pinyin: *Dàlín Zhèn*; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: *Tōa-nâ*) is an [urban township](/source/Township_(Taiwan)) in [Chiayi County](/source/Chiayi_County), [Taiwan](/source/Taiwan). To the east is [Meishan](/source/Meishan,_Chiayi), to the south [Minxiong](/source/Minxiong) and to the north [Yunlin County](/source/Yunlin_County). Dalin TzuChi General Hospital (大林慈濟醫院) is located here.

## History

The township was formerly known as **Dapulin** since the [Qing](/source/Taiwan_under_Qing_rule) empire rule. The first name who came to this area was a Cantonese person. Afterwards, many [Chinese](/source/Chinese_people) immigrated to the area from [Guangdong](/source/Guangdong), [China](/source/China) and [Fujian](/source/Fujian), [China](/source/China). Most of them worked in the forest. During the [Japanese rule](/source/Taiwan_under_Japanese_rule), the government set up a sugar factory in the area.[1]

## Demographics

It has a population of 29,937 in 11,505 households.

## Administrative divisions

The township comprises 21 villages: Damei, Datang, Goubei, Guoxi, Hubei, Jilin, Minghe, Minghua, Neilin, Pailu, Pinglin, Sancun, Sanhe, Sanjiao, Shanglin, Tunglin, Xijie, Xilin, Yihe, Zhongkeng and Zhonglin.

## Economy

There are in total about 2,600 hectares of farmland in the township. Agriculture produce in the township are rice, bamboo shoots, oranges, tangerines, pineapples and orchids.[2] The total annual food production is 12,000 tons.[3]

The development of Dapumei industrial area has attracted corporations such as [Canon](/source/Canon_Inc.) to build factories.[4]

## Education

- [Nanhua University](/source/Nanhua_University)
- Chung Jen Junior College of Nursing, Health Science and Management
- Chiayi County Tungji high school

## Transportation

[Taiwan Railway](/source/Taiwan_Railway) has one station named [Dalin Station](/source/Dalin_railway_station) in the township. The Mianchiuag [Taiwan Sugar Railways](/source/Taiwan_Sugar_Railways) maintains a "Dalin Station."

## Tourism

- [Château De Jourdeness](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_De_Jourdeness)

## Notable natives

- [Chester Chou](/source/Chester_Chou), Deputy Secretary-General of the [Legislative Yuan](/source/Legislative_Yuan) (1999-2014)[5]
- [Hsu Nai-lin](/source/Hsu_Nai-lin), TV host, actor, and singer
- [Sylvia Chang](/source/Sylvia_Chang), actress, writer, singer, producer and director

## References

1. ["Historical Background"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181109070907/https://dalin.cyhg.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=1C5595E1CCB626DC). Archived from [the original](https://dalin.cyhg.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=1C5595E1CCB626DC) on 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2018-11-09.

1. ["Dalin Township"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170307210727/http://www.cyhg.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=A0677AA76DAFF499). Archived from [the original](http://www.cyhg.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=A0677AA76DAFF499) on 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-07.

1. ["Agriculture"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181109122538/https://dalin.cyhg.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=C5A20D908B8C5BFF). Archived from [the original](https://dalin.cyhg.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=C5A20D908B8C5BFF) on 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2018-11-09.

1. ["廠商資訊"](http://dapumei.cyhg.gov.tw/Enterprises.aspx). *dapumei.cyhg.gov.tw*. Retrieved 2 January 2018.

1. ["The Legislative Yuan Republic of China"](https://archive.today/20140426180057/http://webarchive.ncl.edu.tw/archive/disk19/24/00/87/10/20/200711263055/20110618/web/ly.gov.tw/en/02_chief/chiefBiographydcfd.html?id=4). Webarchive.ncl.edu.tw. Archived from [the original](http://webarchive.ncl.edu.tw/archive/disk19/24/00/87/10/20/200711263055/20110618/web/ly.gov.tw/en/02_chief/chiefBiographydcfd.html?id=4) on 2014-04-26. Retrieved 2014-04-28.

## External links

- [Dalin Township Office](http://dalin.cyhg.gov.tw/en/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170203161231/http://dalin.cyhg.gov.tw/en/) 2017-02-03 at the Wayback Machine

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