Taichung Cultural Center Introduction
Taichung City is renowned as a cultural city, with a flourishing literary atmosphere, advanced education, and strong community support for cultural activities. In 1976, the prominent entrepreneur Mr. He Yong donated a cultural center on Shuangshi Road, which became the first cultural center in Taiwan. In 1979, the central government promoted twelve construction projects, providing subsidies for each county and city to establish a cultural center. Taichung selected a site at No. 600 Yingcai Road to build its center, which broke ground in August of the following year and was completed and inaugurated on November 12, 1983, covering an area of 16,615 square meters and named the "Taichung City Cultural Center." (The original Shuangshi Road Cultural Center was renamed "Wenying Hall" in 1983 and was managed by the National Taiwan University of Sport in 2012.) After Taiwan’s consolidation and upgrading to a special municipality on December 25, 2010, it was renamed the "Taichung City Dadu Cultural Center." On January 1, 2013, it was restructured as a unit under the Cultural Affairs Bureau, named the "Dadu Cultural Center of the Taichung City Government." The Dadu Cultural Center manages the Zhongshan Hall and shares office space with the "Dadu Branch of the Taichung Public Library." The facility includes ten exhibition rooms, as well as lecture halls, audiovisual rooms, briefing rooms, conference rooms, study classrooms, reading areas, and self-study rooms, making it a comprehensive educational venue for various arts and cultural promotion activities and an important cultural hub in Taichung City.
