Citations:Lienchiang

Matsu Islands

 * A three year project to study bird ecology in the area, coordinated by Wild Bird Federation of Taiwan (formerly Chinese Wild Bird Federation) and financed by Agriculture Improvement Bureau of Lienchiang County began in April 1996 and improved our understanding of the bird fauna.
 * More important, among the ten one-seat districts, there is overrepresentation, but there is underrepresentation as well. There are ten counties or cities in Taiwan having only one legislative seat branch. Indeed, several of these are cases of severe overrepresentation. At the extreme, Lienchiang County with a population of only 9,786 elects one legislator.
 * On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...] Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.
 * A three year project to study bird ecology in the area, coordinated by Wild Bird Federation of Taiwan (formerly Chinese Wild Bird Federation) and financed by Agriculture Improvement Bureau of Lienchiang County began in April 1996 and improved our understanding of the bird fauna.
 * More important, among the ten one-seat districts, there is overrepresentation, but there is underrepresentation as well. There are ten counties or cities in Taiwan having only one legislative seat branch. Indeed, several of these are cases of severe overrepresentation. At the extreme, Lienchiang County with a population of only 9,786 elects one legislator.
 * On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...] Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.
 * On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...] Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.
 * On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...] Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.
 * On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...] Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.
 * On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...] Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.
 * On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...] Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.

Examples of 'Kinmen and Lienchiang'
(Parallel to the phraseology 'Quemoy and Matsu', in these examples, the two areas of islands are called not by the names used in the Kennedy-Nixon debates, but instead by the official English language names of the counties.)
 * Farmers' associations in Taiwan province and Kinmen and Lienchiang counties will be responsible for forming the national association over the next few months.
 * With the promulgation of the StatueStatute [sic] for the Security and Guidance of Quemoy, Matsu, and the Pratas and Spratly Areas on August 7, 1992, the villagers in Jinmen and Lianjiang (Lienchiang, i.e. Matsu) counties held their first elections in November 1993 respectively to have their county magistrates locally elected.
 * The Fukien Provincial Government oversees the regional affairs of Kinmen County and Lienchiang County.
 * “Extreme torrential rain,” defined as 1.6 feet of precipitation in 24 hours, was reported in all parts of Taiwan, except in the outlying Kinmen and Lienchiang counties and some parts of the capital, Taipei.
 * The Fukien Provincial Government oversees the regional affairs of Kinmen County and Lienchiang County.
 * “Extreme torrential rain,” defined as 1.6 feet of precipitation in 24 hours, was reported in all parts of Taiwan, except in the outlying Kinmen and Lienchiang counties and some parts of the capital, Taipei.
 * “Extreme torrential rain,” defined as 1.6 feet of precipitation in 24 hours, was reported in all parts of Taiwan, except in the outlying Kinmen and Lienchiang counties and some parts of the capital, Taipei.
 * “Extreme torrential rain,” defined as 1.6 feet of precipitation in 24 hours, was reported in all parts of Taiwan, except in the outlying Kinmen and Lienchiang counties and some parts of the capital, Taipei.

Specific Application to Areas
This section attempts to help specify the extent of the jurisdiction of Lienchiang County under Taiwan (ROC) and the concomitant extent of usage of 'Lienchiang' specifically used with reference to various areas. Issues of local government jurisdiction in the area are and have been contested. For instance, jurisdiction over Dongyin has historically been disputed by various counties. Further, the People's Republic of China claims Juguang Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan (ROC) as the Baiquan Islands, an insular part of Changle District, Fuzhou, Fujian, China (PRC) and hence not part of Lianjiang County, Fuzhou, Fujian, China (PRC)- see.

In Fujian, PRC

 * 4. On 17 July, 3,000 infantry troops with several artillery pieces left Foochow in the direction of Lienchiang (119-31, 26-12). 5. Beginning on 17 July Foochow had heavy rains on consecutive days. By 20 July floods had destroyed many houses, and more than 300,000 persons were distressed.
 * The main body of the Chinese 80th Division was entrenched in a series of defenses built at graduating heights encircling the walled city of Fuchou for a distance of approximately eight kilometers. On the morning of 2 October, the opened its attack. The battle raged throughout that day and part of the night. By the afternoon of the 3d, however, they had passed through Lingtou and, on the morning of the 4th, having overcome the enemy at Tangling, they advanced toward the Fuchou valley. Later that day they occupied Fuchou. Also on the 4th, the left flank detachment (one infantry battalion) which had advanced southward from Lienchiang, occupied two islands in the mouth of Lien Chiang.
 * The Chinese Communist shelling of Matsu on May 16, which clearly seems to have been a reaction to GRC artillery fire from Matsu covering a raiding party launched from Matsu against Lienchiang (FCT 8622), caused me to give consideration to repeating to the GRC the warning we gave them last spring that they should not assume the US would assist the GRC should the Chicoms attack the smaller offshore islands in retaliation for raids mounted by the GRC from such islands.
 * But as for the other two Fathers on Tinghai island, they all replied together that they could easily be helped, and be brought to the mainland at night, and be safely deposited in one of the churches which we have in the outskirts of Lienchiang.
 * On April 27, 12 fishermen from a trawler of the Hsinhuatai Co. in Keelung City, Taiwan Province, that had sunk near the island of Tungyin because of an engine breakdown were rescued by fishermen of the Haifeng Brigade of the Huangchi People's Commune in Lienchiang County, Fukien Province.
 * In 1603, from Lienchiang, Fukien, China, followed General Shen Yu-jung in pursuit of pirates and fought against piracy at Tungfan (on the southwest coast of Taiwan).
 * The Chinese Communist shelling of Matsu on May 16, which clearly seems to have been a reaction to GRC artillery fire from Matsu covering a raiding party launched from Matsu against Lienchiang (FCT 8622), caused me to give consideration to repeating to the GRC the warning we gave them last spring that they should not assume the US would assist the GRC should the Chicoms attack the smaller offshore islands in retaliation for raids mounted by the GRC from such islands.
 * But as for the other two Fathers on Tinghai island, they all replied together that they could easily be helped, and be brought to the mainland at night, and be safely deposited in one of the churches which we have in the outskirts of Lienchiang.
 * On April 27, 12 fishermen from a trawler of the Hsinhuatai Co. in Keelung City, Taiwan Province, that had sunk near the island of Tungyin because of an engine breakdown were rescued by fishermen of the Haifeng Brigade of the Huangchi People's Commune in Lienchiang County, Fukien Province.
 * In 1603, from Lienchiang, Fukien, China, followed General Shen Yu-jung in pursuit of pirates and fought against piracy at Tungfan (on the southwest coast of Taiwan).
 * On April 27, 12 fishermen from a trawler of the Hsinhuatai Co. in Keelung City, Taiwan Province, that had sunk near the island of Tungyin because of an engine breakdown were rescued by fishermen of the Haifeng Brigade of the Huangchi People's Commune in Lienchiang County, Fukien Province.
 * In 1603, from Lienchiang, Fukien, China, followed General Shen Yu-jung in pursuit of pirates and fought against piracy at Tungfan (on the southwest coast of Taiwan).
 * In 1603, from Lienchiang, Fukien, China, followed General Shen Yu-jung in pursuit of pirates and fought against piracy at Tungfan (on the southwest coast of Taiwan).
 * In 1603, from Lienchiang, Fukien, China, followed General Shen Yu-jung in pursuit of pirates and fought against piracy at Tungfan (on the southwest coast of Taiwan).
 * In 1603, from Lienchiang, Fukien, China, followed General Shen Yu-jung in pursuit of pirates and fought against piracy at Tungfan (on the southwest coast of Taiwan).