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A 5.4 km (3.4 mi) bridge, the Kinmen Bridge, connecting Kinmen Island (Greater Kinmen) and Lieyu was completed in October 2022, estimated to cost NT$7.5 billion (US$250 million). [106] [107] It is expected to increase local tourism. [107] [108] In October 2019, China announced a plan to build a bridge linking Xiamen to Kinmen.
At about 02:00 when the tide had begun to recede, PLA troops from regiments 244, 251, and 253 landed on the north side of Greater Kinmen Island at Guningtou (Ku-ning-t'ou, 古寧頭 [15]), Huwei (湖尾) and Longkou (壟口). Regiment 244 was the first ashore landing near Lungkou where Nationalist defenders raked them with machine-gun fire ...
Lieyu Township includes numerous islands and islets. [11] Some of the larger among those islands and islets include: [12] Lesser Kinmen (Hsiao Kinmen, Lieyu; 小金門, 烈嶼) Dadan Island (大膽島) (5 km (3.1 mi) to the southwest of Lesser Kinmen) Erdan Island (6 km (3.7 mi) to the southwest of Lesser Kinmen) Sandan, Sidan, and Wudan [13]
Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, and the Matsu islands to the north, since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taipei in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's communists ...
Chiang told Reuters he felt the time was right to revisit the history of Kinmen, now a popular tourist destination, given China's sabre rattling over Taiwan, including war games in 2022 after then ...
Jiangong is connected to main Kinmen island by a causeway which only appears in low tide. The Jiangong Islet [1] (traditional Chinese: 建功嶼; simplified Chinese: 建功屿; pinyin: Jiàngōng Yǔ) (also Jiangong Yu [2]) is a tidal island in Jincheng Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan). [3]
Tsai laid a wreath and bowed her head in respect at a memorial park on Kinmen island, at its closest less than 2 km (1.2 miles) away from Chinese-controlled territory, for the 65th anniversary of ...
The entire Kinmen Archipelago, a group of about twenty islands and islets, were still considered a war zone at the time and were under martial law.The Kinmen Defense Command (金門防衛司令部, or KDC), a field army of the Republic of China (ROC) Army, controlled the islands in an effort to prevent an attack by the People's Liberation Army after the ROC had ended its attempt to retake ...