Taipei Times
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2016
By: Rachel Lin, Huang Shu-li and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer

The Ministry of Education’s youth development administration granted

The abandoned Jianguo Vetrans’ Village in Yunlin County’s Huwei Township is pictured on Thursday last week. Some local residents have launched a campaign to preserve the disused village. Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Education

Yunlin County camp volunteers a subsidy for their work last year revitalizing the now-deserted Jianguo Veterans’ Village (建國眷村) in Huwei Township (虎尾).

Jianguo Village Revitalization Association director-general Lu Yun-hsiang (魯紜湘) said the village is a large complex of four communities and had once been home to more than 5,000 veterans and their families. The village was mostly deserted in 2007, with only a few families still living in the area, she said.

Some of the buildings were dormitories originally built for Japanese naval air group pilots during the Japanese colonial era, Lu said, adding that since the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) came to Taiwan from China, the village had been converted into units for veterans and their families.    [FULL  STORY]