Chi-lung

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.

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Chi-lung's foreign and domestic imports are much greater than exports. It is a major fishing centre, with freezing factories, a marine products school and a meteorological station. Closely associated with coal and power, Chi-lung's industries include fertilizer factories several shipbuilding yards, a grain elevator, a flour mill and a bicycle plant.

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However, during July, Taiwan's hottest month, the heat is practically as great in the north as in the south: For that month the average temperature at Chi-lung is 28.2° C, while at the southern tip of the island it is 27.4° C, a difference of only 0.8° C.

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When they drove to Chi-lung, on the northern tip of Taiwan, they crossed a shantytown area where the dockworkers were housed.

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