Hualien

Proper noun

Hualien

1. A county in eastern Taiwan.
   • Save some time by flying from Taipei to Hualien (45 minutes) in order to drive part-way along the hand-chiseled East Coast Highway. This road goes through spectacular Taroko Gorge, where marble walls rise from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the sea. One section goes through 85 tunnels, which have...1962 October, “Foreign Travel : In the Pacific . . . and in Britain . . . some travel bargains”, in Sunset, page 16
   • The 120-mile East-West Cross-Island Highway, running from just outside Hualien, a city facing the Pacific, across the island's high mountain spine to Tungshih, near Taichung, is on no account to be missed.
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     Midway down the island, the Suao-Hualien Highway dips and snakes for 69 tortuous miles...1989 December, Arthur Zich, “That Other China”, in Connoisseur, pages 134-135
2. A city in and the administrative seat of Hualien County, Taiwan.
   • The industry is centred in Kaohsiung and Hualien, and "after the Japanese surrender the factories were taken over by the Chinese Government.1946 September 14, “Aluminium in Formosa”, in The Chemical Age, volume LV, number 1420, London, page 327
   • The Mei Lun industrial park near Hualien city in eastern Taiwan offers a good opportunity for local and overseas Chinese businessmen to establish factories.1979 July 29, “Industrial park to aid progress in E. Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 29, Taipei, page 4