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Zhongli District

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Zhongli District
Traditional Chinese中壢
Simplified Chinese中坜

Zhongli District (Chinese: 中壢區; pinyin: Zhōnglì Qū) is a district in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. Zhongli is spelled variously as Jungli, Jongli, Jhongli or Chungli on railway, bus stop and road signs. Historically, the city is the site of the Jungli Incident of 1977, the most significant event of the democratization movement prior to the 1980s. Ethnically, it is considered a kind of capital city for the Hakka Taiwanese, who live in great numbers here and nearby; a lot of the elderly could speak Hakka in addition to Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien.[1] Recently many foreign workers (mainly from the Philippines and Thailand) have also settled in and around the city because of the heavy industries in the suburbs of the city. It is a center for foreign laborers.[2] The city of Zhongli has 3 large parks and over 70 green reserves in the city for residents of Zhongli to enjoy.

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  1. 總計畫:客家紮根研究 (PDF) (in Chinese). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 25, 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  2. 經濟部工業局中壢工業區服務中心--首頁. Archived from the original on 2010-03-12. Retrieved 2019-07-29.