Definition of "Hsichih"
Hsichih
proper noun
Quotations
“It’s only a few minutes from Nankang to Hsichih, my friends. Kindly make room for the lady,” the driver was all unctuous smiles, and spoke as though nobody was going to object after he had given the word.
1975, Yao (孟瑤) Meng, “Homeward Bound”, in An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature: Taiwan, 1949-1974, volume 2, Taipei: China Printing, Ltd., page 33
Hardest hit was the town of Hsichih, north of Taipei. The whole town was flooded as the river overflowed its banks. Police rescued 3,000 stranded residents. The Hsichih Baptist Chapel, where Southern Baptist missionaries Herbert and Alice Barrett work, was flooded with six feet of water.
1987 November 5, Linda Phillips, “Typhoon blasts Taiwan; churches are damaged”, in The Baptist Record, Mississippi Baptist Convention, page 1, columns 4, 5
Work on the Second Northern Highway is now under way, and it is predicted that it will be completed by the end of 1992. Related projects such as the Keelung-Hsichih sectionand the Hsinchu-Pingtung sectionare stillin the design stage, and are scheduled for completion by the end of 1996. […] Difficulties encountered during the construction of the second freeway for northern Taiwan and Taipei-llan freeway and during the extension project of Hsichih-Wuku section of the Chungshan North-South Freeway are being overcome bit by bit.
1993, Pei-tsun Hau, Straight Talk, Taipei: Government Information Office, pages 156, 192
Shortly after her election as mayor of Hsichih Township, Chou Ya-shu came to see me at City Hall. During our meeting, I reminded her that if Hsichih were to pursue prosperity and progress to the exclusion of all else, paying attention only to surface achievements such as skyscrapers popping up all around and tax revenues increased, the town's residents would eventually be the ones to suffer.I pointed this out because Hsichih, while pursuing growth, had not paid attention to management. […] Viewed from the highway, Hsichih looks like a smaller version of Taipei, and in some respects actually appears more modern than Taipei due to the height and appearance of its buildings.
2000, Shui-Bian Chen, “Putting Together a Winning Team and Approach for Success”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan, Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., page 108
Minister of Economic Affairs Lin Hsin-yi said that 117,000 households were without electricity and more than 90,000 households were without water on Thursday. As of Friday morning, 61,000 households still had no electricity and 10,000 remained without water, mostly in Hsichih and Nankang.
2000 November 3, “President Chen Inspects Hsichi”, in Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan), archived from the original on 05 August 2022
Mobbed by fans when leaving the studio or while grocery shopping near her home in Hsichih, she now enjoys movie-star-like status and receives scores of letters from her army of devoted fans on a daily basis.
2005 January 23, Gavin Phipps, “His and her royal highness”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 01 January 2006, Features, page 18
That programme, begun in the early 1990s, cost billions of Taiwan dollars, but eventually tamed the river, especially because of the Yuanshanzih flood diversion tunnel (sluiceway), which helps redirect run-off from the upper reaches of the river to the sea on the north-east coast, thus saving the often flooded townships of Rueifang and Hsichih (Sijhih)⁷ when future typhoons and heavy rains hit the area.
2008, Jack Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang, “Back from the brink: resolving Taiwan's environmental problems”, in Taiwan's Environmental Struggle: Toward a Green Silicon Island, page 108
At first, Delia tried to solve this problem by setting up plants in regions where laborers were plentiful, such as Keelung, Hsichih, and Liudu.
2012, “Flourishing: Delta Electronics' Third Decade”, in Solid Power: The Business Philosophy of Bruce Cheng and Delta Electronics, Commonwealth Publishing Co., Ltd., page 160
Coordinated by the Taiwan High Prosecutors’ Office, officials from local district prosecutors’ offices searched the offices of Wei Chuan Foods Corp (味全食品) in Taipei, the company’s food research center in Hsichih District (汐止), New Taipei City, the company’s food product analysis and testing center and Wei’s residence in the luxury condo complex The Palace (帝寶) in Taipei.
2014 October 17, Amy Su, Jason Pan, “Ting Hsin quits oil, to donate NT$3bn”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 17 October 2014, Front Page, page 1
The average distance between these stations is about 32 km. Three stabling yards are established in Hsichih (汐止, Taipei), Wujih (烏日, Taichung) and Tsoying (左營, Kaohsiung) for trains overnight parking, cleaning and preparation. In addition, a main workshop is set up in Yentsao (燕巢, Kaohsiung); a depot is built in Hsichih and two civil/electrical engineering maintenance bases are founded in Liuchia (六家, Hsinchu) and Taipao (太保, Chiayi).
2019 September 11, “Taiwan High Speed Rail(HSR) Project”, in Railway Bureau, MOTC (交通部鐵道局), archived from the original on 22 May 2020
he dataset used in our experiment is provided by ITS, including the information of some numerical data. These data are collected from the stations on freeways. The interval in every two linked station is defined as a route. In this way, we pick three routes from Hsichih to Yuanshan in 2018.
2021, Ming-Chu Ho et al., “Deep Ensemble Learning Model for Long-Term Travel Time Prediction on Highways”, in 2021 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering (AIKE), page 130, column 1