1962 October, “Foreign Travel : In the Pacific . . . and in Britain . . . some travel bargains”, in Sunset[1], page 16:
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 windows cut in the sides to facilitate sightseeing.
1989 December, Arthur Zich, “That Other China”, in Connoisseur[2], pages 134-135:
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. ... Midway down the island, the Suao-Hualien Highway dips and snakes for 69 tortuous miles across the face of black-rock cliffs that plunge as much as 2,600 feet into the perpetually raging Pacific.
Cheng Yen begins each day at 3:50 a.m., awakening from a floor mat in her monastery outside Taiwan's mountainous coastal city of Hualien.[...] Her standing in Taiwan is so high that all three presidential candidates in the March election traveled to Hualien to seek her blessing.
At Rueisuei inHualienCounty, Dong encountered a young cyclist driving to meet his mother at Hualien.
2016 June 29, Hsiao-Ying (張筱瑩) Chang, 周明文 [Chou Ming-Wen], “羅山有機示範村 青年返鄉共尋出路 [FIRST ORGANIC AGRICULTURE DEMONSTRATION VILLAGE]”, in Anthony Lin, transl., Public Television Service[5], archived from the original on 30 June 2016[6]:
Loshan Village of Fuli Township in Hualien was Taiwan's first demo village of organic agriculture.
2017 July 20, “Official documents issued in Aboriginal languages”, in Taipei Times[7], archived from the original on 20 July 2017[8]:
“The most effective way to pass on a language is to use it frequently,” Tsai said on Facebook with a photograph of an official document published in Amis by the Kuangfu Township (光復) Office in Hualien County.
2020 October 7, 0:00 from the start, in 2020 Citizens Sports Games bring athletes to the beautiful scenery of Hualien[9], Formosa Television:
The 2020 Citizens Sports Games are almost here. This year the setting is none other than the beautiful scenery of Hualien. These games for the general public will kick off on Oct. 17 and showcase 28 events over six days. More than 15,000 people are expected to converge on Hualien to watch the action.
2021 April 3, Ralph Jennings, Johnson Lai, “Taiwan prosecutors probe train crash that killed 51”, in AP News[10], archived from the original on 03 April 2021:
The district prosecutor’s office in eastern Hualien County, where the train derailed, confirmed it had interviewed the truck owner, among others, but was not ready to file charges.
2022 May 9, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan rattled by 6.1 magnitude quake, no immediate damage reported”, in Kim Coghill, editor, Reuters[11], archived from the original on 09 May 2022, Asia Pacific[12]:
The quake had a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles) with its epicentre 89.5 km (55.6 miles) off Taiwan's east coast, roughly halfway between the coast of Hualien county and the southern Japanese island of Yonaguni, the weather bureau said.
2022 June 19, “Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake Shakes Central Taiwan Coast”, in Voice of America[13], archived from the original on 20 June 2022:
The quake struck at 9:05 a.m. at a depth of 6.8 kilometers (4.2 miles) in Hualien county, halfway down the east coast of the island, Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau said.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted eastern Taiwan's Hualien County at 9:05 a.m. Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
2022 August 2, Eric Chang, “Taiwan tracks 2 Chinese warships off Lanyu Island”, in Taiwan News[16], archived from the original on 02 August 2022:
A People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) missile destroyer and guided-missile frigate were spotted 45 nautical miles southeast of Lanyu at about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, a military official told CNA. The official said that over the past two days PLAN reconnaissance ships, missile destroyers, and frigates have been monitored in the waters southeast of Hualien County and Lanyu Island.
2022 August 7, Matt Yu, Joseph Yeh, “Taiwan denies Chinese warship intrusion into its territorial waters (update)”, in Focus Taiwan[17], archived from the original on 07 August 2022:
In a statement, Taiwan's Navy said a widely circulated photograph and related Chinese media reports that claimed a PLA A Type 052D destroyer Nanjing (南京艦) sailed within 11.78 kilometers of Ho-Ping Power Plant in eastern Hualien County were not true.
2022 September 18, 1:24 from the start, in Earthquake brings down gym's ceiling with people inside[18], spoken by Will Ripley, CNN[19]:
We haven't gotten any reports of serious injuries, you know, throughout the afternoon which is pretty remarkable when you look at some of the other images coming out from Taiwan. The epicenter: about 200 miles from Taipei in Hualien County. You can see there a building collapsed; several buildings collapsed.
1946 September 14, “Aluminium in Formosa”, in The Chemical Age[20], volume LV, number 1420, London, page 327:
The industry is centred in Kaohsiung and Hualien, and "after the Japanese surrender the factories were taken over by the Chinese Government.
1949, Winifred Lewis, “The Aluminium Producing Industry”, in The Light Metals Industry[21], Temple Press Limited, →OCLC, page 116:
A second smaller works in Taiwan Province, at Hualien, with capacity 8,000 tons per annum, closed down in 1944 and it is not known whether this will be reopened by Chinese or American interests.
1951 November 26, “15 Killed, Over 200 Hurt In Latest Formosa Quakes”, in Victoria Daily Times[22], volume 118, number 279, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, columns 6, 7:
Sunday's quakes damaged the east coast railroad at seven places in the 75-mile stretch between Hualien and Taitung. Hualien, hard hit by quakes that killed about 100 persons Oct. 22 and 23, suffered no casualties Sunday. The rail towns of Yuli and Fuli 50 and 60 miles south, bore the bunt of the Sunday tremors.
The “Beautiful Island” wears a necklace of rails and new roads dangling from Taipei, such as the 17-mile MacArthur Expressway linking the capital to the seaport of Chilung. Taiwan has two other international seaports —recently opened Hualien, on the east coast, and Kaohsiung, facing the mainland a scant 200 miles away.
1979 July 29, “Industrial park to aid progress in E. Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly[24], volume XX, number 29, Taipei, page 4:
The Mei Lun industrial park near Hualien city in eastern Taiwan offers a good opportunity for local and overseas Chinese businessmen to establish factories.
At Rueisuei in Hualien County, Dong encountered a young cyclist driving to meet his mother atHualien.
2018 February 6, John Bacon, “Damage reported after magnitude-6.4 quake rocks Taiwan”, in USA Today[26], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 February 2018[27]:
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 13 miles north-northeast of Hualien, a city of more than 100,000 on Taiwan's east coast.
2020 November 18, “Taiwan grounds F-16 fighter fleet after jet goes missing in drill”, in Al-Jazeera[28], archived from the original on 18 November 2020[29]:
The air force said a single-seat F-16 flown by a 44-year-old pilot disappeared from radar at an altitude of some 6,000 feet (1,800 metres) two minutes after taking off from Hualien air base in eastern Taiwan on Tuesday night.
2021 April 3, Ivan Watson, 0:19 from the start, in Passenger train carrying 490 derails in Taiwan, killing at least 50 and injuring dozens[30], CNN:
There was a 408 train headed down the east side of Taiwan, uh, north of the city of Hualien, and what apparently happened is, judging by some of the aerial images we've seen, some kind of a vehicle was on a road above the railroad, as it was coming along a steep mountain, a coastline, and some kind of construction truck skidded down the side of this mountain close to the railroad tracks, and the train hit it.
2022 September 19, Johnson Lai, Ken Moritsugu, “Strong quake kills 1, knocks house, derails train in Taiwan”, in AP News[31], archived from the original on 19 September 2022[32]:
A photo released by the Hualien city government showed the girl lying on a blanket and being handed down a metal ladder from the top of the debris by helmeted rescue workers in orange uniforms.
The forms of movement of the Hualien and the Post-Hualien phases largely reflect the geological structures of the Tertiary and the T’ouk’oshan group which was overlain by post-T’ouk’oshan deposits in the tablelands and coastal plains of West Taiwan.
