Local self-governing is the foundation of a democratic constitution. In accordance with the Constitutions, the procedure for canying out local self-governing starts with the Central Government’s decree of rules for county self-governing, followed by the provincial government’s convening of provincial assembly meeting for stipulating province self-governing act according to province/county self-governing act. The county then calls county assembly meeting, and regulate county self-governing rules for implementation.

In January 1949, before “Local Self-Governing Act” was Degreed, Taiwan’s First Provincial Assembly, the Sixth Meeting passed the [Taiwan’s Township Self-Governing Temporary Regulations], which was duly presented to the government for implementation At the time, the Central Government had only just been allocated to Taiwan, the nation was still amidst turmoil. Despite which, the late President Chiang Kai-shek with his foresight and faith, decided to carry tout local self-governing by phased and areas.

Following the Central Government’s policy and the public’s wish, Taiwan Provincial Government began with the planning in January 1949. [ Taiwan province Local Self-Governing Research Council’s Organizational Charter] was duly proposed and passed by the 38th Meeting of the Provincial Government Commission on 21 January 1949. The charter was then used for canying the policy.

On 19 January Kwangshu 12 of the Ching Dynasty, Taiwan formally became a province, on 17 August Kwangshu 13, the first governor Liu Ming-tsuan setup the three administrations of Taipei, Taiwan and Tainan along with 11 counties including Tamsui, Hsinchu, Ilan (These belonged to Taipei Administration), Taiwan, Chunghwa, Yuanlin, Miaoli (These belonged to Taiwan Administration), Anping , Fongshan, Hsengtsun, Chiayi (These belonged to Tainan Administration), along with 4 divisions known as keehing, Nanya, Pulishe, Penghu, and Taitung County. After the Sino-Japanes War, Taiwan was given to Japan, and went through 9 administrative changes duting the Japanese occupation. At the end of which, its was divided into5 counties (Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung) and 3 divisions (Taitung, Hualien, Penghu). After rwstitution, Taiwan’s administrative structure was changed to 8 counties and 9 cities (Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taitung, Hualien, Penghu Counties), (Taipei, Keelung, Hinchey, Taichung, Chunghwa, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Pingtung Cities) respectively, Under the county , district, township, village, neighbourhood were facilitated. To carry out the local self-government policy, the administrative regions were altered again, Taiwan was the divided into 16 counties and 5 cities (Taipei, Ilan, Taoyuan, Hinchey, Miaoli, Taichung, Chunghwa, Nantou, Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Pingtung, Taitung, Hualien, Penghu Counties), (Keelung, Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung Cities) respectively. In 1967 and June 1979, Taipei and Kaohsiung cities were upgraded as Yuan governed cities. On 1 July 1982, Hsinchu County and City, Chiayi County and City were promoted as province-governed cities. As of present, Taiwan’s administrative areas include 16 counties, 5 province-governed cities, 227 village townships, 16 towns, 21 county-governed cities 37 districts, 3,079 villages, 111,054 neighbourhoods.

Under the old system, Hinchey County (Referred to Greater Hinchey County) governed today’s Hinchey County and City, Taoyuan County and Miaoli County based on the government organizational charter degreed on 11 December 1945. The county government was officially set up in January 1946 at the site of the original Hinchey County Hall (Today’s Hinchey City Hall). At the time when Hsinchu City was officially regulated as a province-governed city, it was relocated to the original county division (Today’s Hsinchu City Hall), and the Hinchey County Government was moved to Taoyuan (Hinchey County , Taoyuan District at the time) on 28 February 1946.

After Hinchey became an administrative county, county representative election was held on 17 March 1946 according to the temporary county assembly organization regulations. Promulgated on 9 August 1941. A total of 38 district representatives and 1 representative for professional group were elected; these 39 councilmen form the Hinchey County Assembly. On 14 April 1946, the assembly was the former body of this assembly. At the time, the speaker was Mr. Huang Yun-chin, and deputy Mr. Chu Sheng-chi.

According to the related regulations, the term of councilman was 2 years. However, at the time where the term was coming to close, the Constitutions were decreed, and the Central order extension of the term to such time the assembly would be formerly established. This is the former body of Hinchey County Assembly until 23 January 1951 when the first assembly was official.

On 14 April 1950, the Executive Yuan approved the local self-governing bill. In the same year on 24 April, Taiwan Provincial Government officially decreed the [Taiwan County/City Implementation of Self- Government Outline]. On 25 October, the province’s administrative areas were re-adjusted fiom the original 8 counties and 9 province-governed cities to 21 counties and cities accordingly. The original province-governed Hsinchu City system during the early restitution period was abolishted, and 7 village townships of Kwangsi, Hsinpu towns, Hukou, Hsinfong, Chppei, Hengshan,
Chunlin. Peifu, Urmei, along with two mountain villages of Chienshan and Wufong were merged into the jurisdiction of Hinchey County. The government body was established in Hsinchu City.

After the administrative adjustment, county/city representative election was held. In accordance with the Provincial Government’s order of conduction by area and phase, the 21 counties/cities representative election was divided into 6 phases. This county was regulated in the fourth phase, and the first representative election was held on 7 January 1952 in synchronistation with Taoyuan and Miaoli Counties.

For the first election, the first household registration check was conducted from 11 to 25 November 1950. At such time, the county total population was 349,618. The election produced 37 councilmen: 3 of which were female. The swear-in ceremony was held on 23 January.

At this time, the assembly sites was not yet determined; thus, the east wing of Hsin Chu County Hall (Today’s Hsinchu City Hall) was used as the temporary facility. By December 1952, 600 pings located at Hsinjen Section, Hsinchu City was found for accommodating the assembly. Ground-breaking ceremony was held on 12 December 1952, and the construction initiated in February the following year. On 3 August 1953, it was finally completed, and the provincial governor ate the time Mr. Yu Kang-chun honoured the opening ceremony. Thus, Hsinchu County Assembly is formally in session ate 122 Chungchien Road, Hsinchu City till today.

On 1 July 1982, the original county-governed Hsinchu City, merged with Shangshan Village, was promoted into a province-governed city. Under the Executive Yuan’s order, Hsinchu County Administration was relocated to Chupei, and Chupei Village was raised to county-governed city on 31 October 1988. Once the relocation was confirmed, Hsinchu County Government acquired the Dolune area for building the new county hall and assembly facilities. On 14 February 1987, the ground breaking ceremony for the assembly under the address of 8, Kwangming Ⅵ Road, Dolune Community, Chupei City, and opened on 8 May 1989. On 7 November of the same year, the completion ceremony was conducted. The relocation took a total of 8 years.