Chekiang Province, Republic of China

This article is about Former Chekiang Province of the Republic of China. For Zhejiang Province of the People's Republic of China, see Zhejiang.
Chekiang Province (1912–55)
浙江省
Former Province

Map of Chekiang Province
Coordinates: 29°00′N 120°00′E / 29.000°N 120.000°E / 29.000; 120.000Coordinates: 29°00′N 120°00′E / 29.000°N 120.000°E / 29.000; 120.000
Capital
County
List
  • 7 counties (1951)
  • 4 counties and 2 administrative regions (1954)[1]
Area
 • Total 17 km2 (7 sq mi)
Population (1954)
 • Total 1,700
Chekiang Province of the Republic of China, between 1949 and 1955.

Chekiang Province, Republic of China (1912–1955) was abolished after the ROC Forces, ROC government officials and local residents were evacuated from Tachen to Taiwan in 1955 following the military defeat of ROC by People's Republic of China's People's Liberation Army forces during the Battle of Tachen Archipelago.[2]

After the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang-led Republic of China government lost its control in Mainland China and only held several east coast islands off Mainland Chekiang Province, including Tachen, Ichiangshan (Yikiangshan), Pishan, Taumenshan, Yüshan and Nanki.[3] After losing the mainland, the Nationalists used the islands to stage commando raids into Zhejiang, occasionally penetrating as far as the area around Shanghai.[4] The county governments withdrawn to the islands from the mainland included seven counties, namely Wenling, Linhai, Huangyan, Pinyang, Sanmen, Leqing and Yuhuan. Chiang Kai-shek, the late President of the Republic of China, appointed Hu Zongnan, the general of the ROC Armed Forces, to establish the "Government of Chekiang Province" on the Dachen Islands on September 1951. Its purpose was to fight against the mainland which was controlled by the Communist Party of China.

In 1952, the Chekiang Government reorganized the seven counties into four counties, which were Wenling, Linhai, Pinyang and Yuhuan. Sanmen county was reorganised as "Yushan Administrative Bureau", and "Zhuyu Administrative Bureau" was also established. These administrative bureaus were originally intended to be used as the "special region" for direct economic trading with Mainland China, however they were abolished one year later. In 1953, the Chekiang Government office moved to Taiwan. In 1955, the People's Liberation Army conquered Yijiangshan Island during the Battle of Yijiangshan Islands. The Republic of China evacuated the military garrison and civil residents from Dachen and Nanji to the island of Taiwan with the assistance of the United States Seventh Fleet. The Chekiang Government in Taiwan was abolished soon afterwards, and the People's Republic of China successfully occupied the offshore islands, establishing control over the whole of Zhejiang Province.[5][6]

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References

  1. ↑ 蔣經國巡視大陳島 (Chinese Version)
  2. ↑ 國民政府的浙江省政府 (Chinese Version)
  3. ↑ 三軍渡海攻占一江山島 (Chinese Version)
  4. ↑ Domes, Jurgen. Peng Te-huai: The Man and the Image, London: C. Hurst & Company. 1985. ISBN 0-905838-99-8. p.66
  5. ↑ 1955: US evacuates Pacific islands
  6. ↑ Tachen Island Evacuation History
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