Dachen

alternative Tachen

1. An island group of Jiaojiang district, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China

   In early March 1955, the Red Cross Society of China sent a fact-finding mission to the Dachen Islands (大陳島).

   2025 April 15, Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, “The Displacement and Relief of Chiang Kai-shek’s ‘Righteous Compatriots’ in the Global Cold War”, in The Historical Journal, volume 68, number 3, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2025, pages 667–688

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   The Dachen Islands (121°44′55″–121°55′10″E, 28°23′24″–28°37′02″N) are located in the southeast waters of Taizhou Bay, 52 km away from Jiaojiang District.

   2022 May 6, Hong Huang, Zuanyi Wang, Yingdong Li, Xu Zhao, Zhenhua Wang, Xiaopeng Cheng, “Fishery Resources, Ecological Environment Carrying Capacity Evaluation and Coupling Coordination Analysis: The Case of the Dachen Islands, East China Sea”, in Frontiers in Marine Science, volume 9, →DOI, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2025

   The drills are near the Dachen islands, which Taiwan controlled until 1955 until being evacuated after other nearby islands were seized by Chinese forces in a bloody battle. Taiwan still controls the Matsu and Kinmen islands, off the coast of China's Fujian province, held since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taipei after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's communists

   2023 June 13, Ryan Woo, Albee Zhang, Ben Blanchard, “China holds live-fire drills in East China Sea north of Taiwan”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING (Reuters), archived from the original on 13 Jun 2023, Asia Pacific