In June 2009, the Executive Yuan approved the plan to upgrade Taoyuan from a county to a special municipality. It had 6 cities, 1 urban township and 6 rural townships. On 21 April 1971, Taoyuan City was made the county seat of Taoyuan County. In 1950, Taoyuan County was established by separating it from Hsinchu County. Butokuden ( 武德殿) were used to represent military systems, and the old Taoyuan City Office signified political systems.Īfter the return of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China on 25 October 1945, the present day-area of Taoyuan City was incorporated under Hsinchu County. For example, temples and worship paths (currently the Taoyuan Martyrs Shrine) symbolized cultural systems. In 1920, the Tōen area was incorporated into Shinchiku Prefecture.ĭuring the Japanese era, the staged migration policy caused Taoyuan to develop into a city with a variety of cultures. In November 1901, during Japanese era, a local administrative office, Toshien Chō ( Japanese: 桃仔園廳), was established in the area, and renamed Tōen Chō ( 桃園廳) in 1905. They planted peach trees, which, when fully bloomed in spring, were so beautiful that the people named the land Toahong ( Chinese: 桃仔園 pinyin: Táozǐyuán Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Thô-á-hn̂g lit. During the Qing era, a number of people from Fujian Province and Guangdong province began to immigrate into present-day Taoyuan to develop and farm the land. In the early years of Dutch colonization, Spanish colonization, and Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty, there were no large-scale cultivation or industrial activities.
In prehistory, the Ketagalan people settled in Nankan.
In ancient times, the Taoyuan plateau was the home of the Taiwanese plains aborigines.