Article by Wu-Ji Kang 　　Hua-lienCounty is geographically located at the east coast of Taiwan. On the north side Peace (He-Ping) River and Mts. South Lake (Nan-hu) are neighboring the I-lan County. The west side extends from Mts. South Lake (Nan-hu), Mt. Central Point (Zhong-Yang Jian), Mt. Bi-Lu, Mt. Da-Yu, Mt. He-Huan, Mt. Qi-Lai, Mt. Nan-Gao, Mts. Dan-Da, Mts. Shiu-Gu-Luan to Mt. San-Cha ridges and joints with Taichun County, Nan-Tou County and Kaohsiung County. 　　The south has Mt. San-Cha, Mt. Bulakesan, Mt. Lun-tian, Chi-Fu Bridge in the Hua-Dong Valley, and the highest mountain on the coastline Mt. New Port (Shin-Gang), along with Mt. Guang-Ao, Mt. Chi-Luo and Point Da-Fong are   neighboring Taitung County. 　　 The eastern side, extending from Peace (He-Ping) Village to Point Da-Fong, is the seashore of 136-km long facing the dark blue Pacific Ocean, which is full of abundant oceanic ecology. 　　Speaking of landscape, Hua-lien County is on the eastern wing of the Taiwan Central Mountains. The north and middle section of the Hua-Dong Valley along with the Oceanic Mountains region, Hua-lien's long and narrow landscape is the county with the largest land size in Taiwan. 　　The west altitude reaches 3805 meters high on the top of Mt. Shiu-Gu-Luan, and downwards to 130km long lowland Fu-Li Town in the Hua-Dong Valley of Hua-lien City. This area is the connection joint of European-Asian Plate and Philippines Oceanic Plate. Hua-Dong Valley has different fault alluvial tract zone. The north side is the rising Su-Hua fault causing oceanic escarpment and mountainous landscape, valleys, unique coastal mountains and variety of ecology nearby the Pacific waves, which make “hui-len” sound that is in turn pronounced like “Hua-lien” for its name. 　　Hua-lien's mountains and water have made many people believe it is the last clean earth in Taiwan, and some even call it as the heaven on earth. Seeing is believing! Welcome to visit Hua-lien!