Country Taiwan Area 198 ha | Region Southern Taiwan Population 51,953 (Jan 2016) | |
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Xinxing District (Chinese: 新興區; Hanyu Pinyin: Xīnxīng Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Sinsing Cyu; Wade–Giles: Hsin1-hsing1 Ch'ü1) is a downtown district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
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Map of Xinxing District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 800
Name
Xinxing means prosperity in Mandarin Chinese.
History
Xinxing used to be called Toa-kang-po (Chinese: 大港埔) in early days where it was filled with endless wilderness before. During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, residents in the area used to make a living from farming and lived a simple life. Due to the nature of agriculture industry, people deployed water conservation methods in the area, thus irrigation system was spread all over the area. Fields became fertile and they grew rice, sweet potato, sugarcane or maize.
After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, the area grew gradually and was renamed Xinxing District afterwards. It is now the lively and beautiful modernized administrative area at present.