By the end of October in 2019, the total number of new residents in Taiwan is 554,706 people who mainly inhabit the six main cities (387,531 in total, accounting for 69.86 percent). New Taipei City has the most (107,874 people), Lianjiang County has the least (569 people), and Taoyuan ranks the fourth (61,774 people ). In terms of the proportion of new residents out of the population in counties and cities, Lianjiang County accounts for 4.55 percent, Keelung City ranks second (2.81 percent), and Taoyuan ranks 3rd (2.75 percent). It is also found that over the past ten years, Taoyuan City's number of new residents and the percentage has increased from 47,695 (2.38 percent) to 61,774 (2.74 percent) by the end of October this year, and it increases year by year.
Additionally, by the end of October this year, the top 3 nationalities of new residents in Taoyuan City are mainland China(59.67 percent), Vietnam(18.29 percent), and Indonesia (7.91 percent). They account for 85.87 percent in total. Compared to the end of 2010, the new residents from Vietnam, the Philippines, Hongkong, Macao, Japan, and Korea all increased. Among them, the people from Vietnam increased by 1.98 percentages, and the people from mainland China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia also decreased. Mainland China decreased the most by 2.81 percentages.
Owing to the increased number of new residents, Taoyuan established the "New Residents Affairs Committee" in 2016 and activated "Taoyuan New Immigrants Culture Hall" in 2018 to provide naturalization consultation, social welfare, education learning, career assistance, protection assistance, and legal services...etc. It also set "House 135", a culture and art exhibition space and a south center for new residents' empowerment to provide more diverse and friendly services.
