National Hualien Senior High School (國立花蓮高級中學;HLHS) is a school in Hualien City

Hualien City

Hualien City is the capital of Hualien County, Taiwan. It is located on the East coast of Taiwan, by the Pacific Ocean, and has a population of 110,000 inhabitants.- History :...

, Hualien County

Hualien County

Hualien County is the largest county in Taiwan and is located on the mountainous eastern coast of Taiwan. It contains the island's largest port. It is the starting point of the Hualien-Taitung Line and the terminal point of North-Link Line of TRA...

, Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

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History

HLHS was established in 1936 as Hualien Harbor Public School (花蓮港中學校) in the period of Imperial Japanese occupation. In 1945, after the Taiwan resurrection, renamed to Provincial Hualien Habor School (junior and senior High School). In 1946, it changed its name to Taiwan Provincial Hualien Senior High School(省立花蓮高級中學) and eliminated its junior high school department in 1968. In 2000, HLHS renamed to its current name.

The school had been a boys school until 2002, when it admitted girls to apply to its Musical and Physical Experimental Departments. The enrollment now is 1503 students in 39 classes.

Facilities

The campus of HLHS features student dorms, teacher dorms, 3 general education building,a administration building, a 50-meter swimming pool, an indoor stadium featuring 6 badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 courts, an outdoor stadium with 2 tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 courts, a volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 court, and 4 basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 courts, a multiple performance and convention center, a library building, science labs, a playground and a health center.

Class Sections

• General Education Department
• Math and Science Education Department
• Musical Experimental Education Department
• Physical Experimental Education Department

External links

• National Hualien Senior High School Website (Chinese)

Sister School

Yaeyama Vocational High School, Yaeyama Islands

Yaeyama Islands

The Yaeyama Islands are a group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.The isles are the remotest part of Japan from the main islands and contains Japan's most southern and most western inhabited islands.The islands form the southern part of the volcanic Nansei Islands...

, Okinawa Prefecture

Okinawa Prefecture

is one of Japan's southern prefectures. It consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū to Taiwan. Okinawa's capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of Okinawa Island...

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