Chiayi City Government

Chiayi City Government

嘉義市政府
Seal of Chiayi City Government
Chiayi Municipal Administrative Center
Agency overview
Formed	1 July 1982
Jurisdiction	Chiayi City
Headquarters	No.199, ZhongShan Road, East District, Chiayi City, Taiwan Province,  Republic of China
Agency executives	Twu Shiing-jer, Mayor Hou Chong-wen, Deputy Mayor
Child agencies	14 Subordinate Departments 6 Bureaus 2 Second-Level Agencies 2 District Offices 2 Affiliated Departments 3 Municipal Enterprises
Website	Chiayi City Government Official Website

Chiayi City Government (Chinese: 嘉義市政府; pinyin: Jiāyì Shì Zhèngfǔ) is the government that governs Chiayi City of the Republic of China.

Cultural Affairs Bureau

History

Kingdom of Tungning (1661~1683)

• 1661, Koxinga came to Taiwan and expel Dutch. Founded first Chinese Government in Taiwan. Established Chengtian Fu, Tianxing County and Wannian County. Chiayi City was belonged to Tianxing County.

Taiwan under Qing rule (1683~1895)

• 1683: Taiwan under the Qing dynasty. 1684, Taiwan Prefecture established: Taiwan County, Fongshan County and Tsulo County. The seat of Tsulo located at Jialixing (modern-day Jiali, Tainan).
• 1704: Tsulo County Government moved to Tsulosan.
• 1786: The anti-Qing Lin Shuang-wen Rebellion (林爽文事件) laid siege to Tsulo County ten months. Citizens of Tsulo County helped Qing Army. Name changed from ″Tsulo″ to "Kagi"/"Chia-i" because ″in meritorious service, Tsulo Citizens defended the county to the last."
• 1885: Permission was received officially develop Taiwan into a province (Fujian-Taiwan-Province)
• 1887: Government reorganized into four prefectures belonging to Fujian-Taiwan-Province. Kagi District belonged to Tainan Prefecture, and the district seat was still located in Kagi City.

Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895~1945)

• 1895: According to the Treaty of Shimonoseki, Formosa ceded to Japan. Kagi under Tainan Ken (臺南縣).
• 1920: Kagi upgraded to Kagi District, Tainan Prefecture.
• 1930: Kagi Town (嘉義街) of Kagi District (嘉義郡) upgraded to Kagi City (嘉義市).

the Republic of China(1945~now)

• 1945, Japanese Empire was lose World War II, Taiwan Province area recovered, and be subordinated to the Republic of China Government. Chiayi City was a three-class provincial city and subordinated to Taiwan Province. It was the first time Provincial Chiayi City. In that time, Chiayi City divide Xindong District (新東區), Xinxi District (新西區), Xinnan District (新南區) and Xinbei District (新北區).
• 1946, Shuishang Township and Taibao Township (today's Taibao City) were merged into Chiayi City. In that time, Chiayi City divide Xindong District (新東區), Xinxi District (新西區), Xinnan District (新南區), Xinbei District (新北區), Taibao District (太保區) and Shuishang District (水上區), total of six districts
• 1950, Chiayi City was degraded to county-level city, it also was the only county-level city in Chiayi County.
• 1972, Chiayi City and Hsinchu City upgraded to Provincial City at the same time,and re-establish Chiayi City Government. There are five provincial-cities in Taiwan Province at that time.
• 1990, because population growth at suburb of Chiayi City ,Chiayi City divided East and West two districts.

City Flower

Hong Kong Orchid Tree is an evergreen small trees being Caesalpiniaceae. The scientific name is Bauhinia blakeana. It has Bauhinia variegata like appearance and is with large thick leaves and striking purplish red flowers which is like cattleya. Bauhinia blakeana was imported into Taiwan in 1967. Except its specialty of coquettish flower, there is another quality that the same species, like Bauhinia variegata and Cercis chinensis do not have. Its leaves can survive from winter and the florescence is from winter to spring. It is still splendid and vivid while most flowers of small trees are withered. Choose Bauhinia blakeana as the city flower of Chiayi is to symbolize the passion of citizens, the beauty and copiousness of municipal construction. The evergreen leaves symbolize thriving and robust of industry and business. The purpose is to anticipate citizens can work on creating a beautiful and prosperous Chiayi city all together.

Municipal Emblem

Chiayi Municipal Emblem

Chiayi City was reformed its status into provincial city on 1 July in 1982. The mayor Dr. Shih Sian Syu solicited ideas about the municipal emblem from public then. After assessing, the design from citizen Ming Hong Tsai was selected. The blue background of the emblem symbolizes magnificence and dignity. The charchters of Chiayi city and plum blossom are white which symbolize brightness. The letters “71” are red which symbolize progress and auspicious. The mark of northern tropic is green which symbolize newly born. Plum blossom is Taiwan national flower. “71” represents the reformed date 1 July 1982. The mark of northern tropic tells the geographic position of Chiayi city. The four green lines represent reformation and elevation of city status.

Organization

• Mayor
  • Deputy Mayor
    • Secretary-General
      • Senior Executive
      • Secretariat
      • Specialist^[1]

Mayor

List (Provincial Era)

Session	Term	Name	Office	Political party
1	1	Hsu Shih-hsien (許世賢)	1 July 1982 – 1 July 1983 [2]	Independent
Proxy	--	Chiang Ching-lin (江慶林)[3]	1 July 1983 – 15 December 1983 As acting	Kuomintang
By-election	2	Chang Po-ya (張博雅)	15 December 1983[4] – 20 December 1985	Independent
2		Chang Po-ya (張博雅)	20 December 1985 – 20 December 1989	Independent
4	3	Chang Wen-ying (張文英)	20 December 1989 – 20 December 1993	Independent
5			20 December 1993 – 20 December 1997
6	4	Chang Po-ya (張博雅)	20 December 1997 – 22 May 2000 [5]	Independent
Proxy	--	Chen Li-chen (陳麗貞)	22 May 2000 – 20 December 2001	Independent
7	6	Chen Li-chen (陳麗貞)	20 December 2001 – 30 March 2003	Independent
			30 March 2003 – 20 December 2005	Democratic Progressive Party
8	7	Huang Min-hui (黃敏惠)	20 December 2005 – 20 December 2009	Kuomintang
			20 December 2009 – 25 December 2014
9	8	Twu Shiing-jer (涂醒哲)	25 December 2014 – Incumbent	Democratic Progressive Party

Current Mayor

Huang Ming-hui

• Education
  • Master of Business Administration, National Chiayi University
  • Bachelor of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University
  • Hung Jen Catholic Girls' High School
  • Chiayi Junior High School
  • Chiayi Municipal Chuiyang Elementary School

• Work Experience
  • Teacher of Taipei Municipal Zhong Shan Girls' High School
  • Representative of National Assembly
  • The fourth, fifth, sixth session Legislator
  • Mayor of Chiayi City
• Political party: Kuomintang
• Administration Idea
  • Advance district development, establish Chaiyi as the tourism and consumption city in Yulin Chaiyi and Tainan Region.
  • Promote Culture and Creative Industry, make a good use of Culture and Creative Industries Park and Chiayi Old Prison to build up a refined and innovation image of culture city.
  • Construct traffic and safety network of city, reinforce the service quality of a modern city.
  • Promote urban renovation and major municipal construction actively, such as levy Hu Tzi Nei section to transform feature and environment of the city.
  • Deep plow through education and multi-innovation to upgrade soft power and competitiveness of the city.
  • Strive for subsidy from central government and combine society resources to forge ahead the goal of international healthy city.
  • Strive for opportunity to held big scale national activity and marketing the beauty of Chiayi; Industrialize Physical Education to promote development of local economy.
  • Make arrangement of 2010 Taiwan Lantern Festival, 2011 International Band Festival to show the tourism and culture glamour of Chaiyi City.
  • Develop Chiayi Intelligent Industrial Park to obtain an influx of high-tech manufacturers; integrate machinery, agriculture and food processing industry to increase working opportunity for flourishing local economy.
  • Plan to build up Sport Leisure Park for providing a fine training place, and public will have an extra place to spend their leisure time.

• Municipal Policies
  • An international prospect: build up Chiayi City as Kyoto in Taiwan.

• Six goals of municipal policy
  • Energetic city: urban renovation, community transforming.
  • Efficient city: restructuring procedure, e-service.
  • Safe city: community networks for children and woman's safety.
  • Prosperous city: consumption center, distinctive shopping area.
  • Friendly city: reciprocal trust and affection, humanistic concern.
  • Beautiful city: cultural art, city marketing.

• Eight strategies of municipal policy:
  • Environmental sanitation: exalt the quality of medical treatment, sustain ecological environment.
  • Urban administration: incorruptible and convenient municipal service for the public.
  • Society security: relieved, secure, healthy.
  • Industrial upgrade: increase working opportunities for the public.
  • Educational culture: sound personality, culture heritage.
  • Flourishing business: consumption center in Yulin Chaiyi and Tainan Region.
  • Traffic construction: convenient traffic networks.
  • Social welfare: love and care.

Transportation

The government building is accessible within walking distance South of Beimen Station of the Alishan Forest Railway.

See also

• Chiayi City Council

References

Executivies of Chiayi City Government Subordinate Departments Civil Affairs Department Finance Department Economic Affairs Department Social Affairs Department General Affairs Department Civil Service Ethics Department Budget, Accounting and Statistics Department Education Department Public Works Department Transportation Department Land Administration Department Planning Department Personnel Department Urban Development Departmen First-level Agencies (Bureau) Police Bureau Cultural Affairs Bureau Public Health Bureau Social Affairs Bureau Fire Bureau Environmental Protection Bureau Local Tax Bureau Second-level Agencies East District Household Registration Office West District Household Registration Office Land Office Social Affairs Department Mortuary Service Office Chiayi City Stadium Public Market Affiliated Unit East District Health Center West District Health Center District Office East District Office West District Office Municipal Enterprises Chiayi Fish Market Co., Ltd Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market of Chiayi City Co., Ltd Chiayi City Meat Market Co., Ltd