Lien-chiang

The Matsu Islands are made up of nineteen islets, which are a part of Lien-chiang county of Fukien province. The total area of the island group is only 28.8 sq km. These islands were uninhabited before the Yüan dynasty. Later, fishermen from Fukien and Chekiang used the islands for shelter and rest. From the Ming dynasty, fishermen began to settle there.

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Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993.

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In a total registered electorate of 13,421,170, the smallest number of votes needed to win amounts to as few as 20,000 to 50,000 in many districts.⁶ ... ⁶This is leaving aside certain small districts such as P'eng-hu, Lien-chiang, and Chin-men counties where even smaller vote counts are sufficient to win because of small population size.

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Martial law was lifted from most of the offshore islands in 1987; and then from both island groups of Kinmen (officially, Kinmen county of Fujian province, ROC) and Matsu (Lien-chiang county of Fujian province, ROC) in 1992.

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