Dalin, Chiayi

The township was formerly known as Dapulin since the Qing empire rule. The first name who came to this area was a Cantonese person. Afterwards, many Chinese immigrated to the area from Guangdong, China and Fujian, China. Most of them worked in the forest. During the Japanese rule, the government set up a sugar factory in the area.^[1]

It has a population of 29,937 in 11,505 households.

The township comprises 21 villages: Damei, Datang, Goubei, Guoxi, Hubei, Jilin, Minghe, Minghua, Neilin, Pailu, Pinglin, Sancun, Sanhe, Sanjiao, Shanglin, Tunglin, Xijie, Xilin, Yihe, Zhongkeng and Zhonglin.

There are in total about 2,600 hectares of farmland in the township. Agriculture produce in the township are rice, bamboo shoots, oranges, tangerines, pineapples and orchids.^[2] The total annual food production is 12,000 tons.^[3]

The development of Dapumei industrial area has attracted corporations such as Canon to build factories.^[4]

• Nanhua University
• Chung Jen Junior College of Nursing, Health Science and Management
• Chiayi County Tungji high school

Taiwan Railway has one station named Dalin Station in the township. The Mianchiuag Taiwan Sugar Railways maintains a "Dalin Station."

• Château De Jourdeness

• Chester Chou, Deputy Secretary-General of the Legislative Yuan (1999-2014)^[5]
• Hsu Nai-lin, TV host, actor, and singer
• Sylvia Chang, actress, writer, singer, producer and director