Taichung is a city located in west-central Taiwan with a population of just over one million people, making it the third largest city on the island, after Taipei and Kaohsiung. The city's name is Chinese for 'Central Taiwan.' Taichung City is administratively a municipality of Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. It is surrounded completely by Taichung County.
Taichung City is located in the Taichung Basin along the main western coastal plain that stretches from northern Taiwan along the west coast nearly to the southern tip. The city is located just north of 24° north and about 120.5° east longitude.
It is surrounded completely by Taichung County. Taichung City borders Tanzih Township, Fongyuan City, Sinshe Township, Taiping City, Dali City, Wurih Township, Dadu Township, Longjing Township, Shalu Township, and Daya Township.
The average temperature of Taichung city is about 23 degrees celsius, and average rainfall is about 1700 mm per year. Taichung City is first founded around year 1705, during the Qing Dynasty. It is first developed for military purpose.
In the year 1887, Taichung had become the center of Taiwan, most of the politics, economic and cultural activities were held here. Though years later, Taichung was no longer as important as it used to be, but now it is becoming a rising power which is right behind Taipei.
Taichung has a milder climate than other major cities in Taiwan. Due to the protection provided by the Central Mountain range to the east and the Miaoli hills to the north, Taichung is rarely severely affected by typhoons. However, occasional typhoons emerging from the S outh China Sea will pose a threat to the city as evidenced by Typhoon Wayne in 1986 which struck Taiwan from the west coast near Taichung.
The average temperature of Taichung city is about 23 °C (73 °F), with an average annual rainfall of 1,708 millimeters (67.25 in). Taichung has a milder climate than other major cities in Taiwan. Due to the protection provided by the Central Mountain range to the east and the Miaoli hills to the north, Taichung is rarely severely affected by typhoons.
Taichung City’s executive branch is headed by mayor Jason Hu of the Chinese Nationalist Party. Mayor Hu won re-election in December, 2005 with more than fifty-eight percent of the vote. This makes him the first candidate to achieve more than fifty percent of the vote in the Democratic Era of Taiwan, and represents an improvement of more than nine percent over his 2001 showing despite the fact that he was one of four candidates (as opposed to there being only three in 2001.) The 1997 election was won by Chang Wen-Ying of the Democratic Progressive Party Taichung’s legislative branch is a unicameral 46-member City Council. Each member is elected from one of six multiple member districts where each voter has only one vote. Thus, none of the elected council members has anywhere close to a majority of votes in their electoral district.
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