Living beside the century-old primary school on Ganyuan Street, with farmland just beyond
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Life in Ganyuan runs along Ganyuan Street and Jiayuan Road. When the city government surveyed the area for the Greater Ganyuan urban plan, it found that homes mostly line these two roads and cluster around Ganyuan Elementary School. The school was founded in 1911, and Yuying Hall on its campus is a historic building.
Away from the school, the roadsides turn to factories, and beyond them is farmland. The survey says the plan area is now mainly manufacturing and farming, with factories mostly along the main roads: 1,264 in all, 523 of them unregistered.
Shops gather where the two roads meet, mostly retail and places to eat. Real-estate listings say everyday shopping relies on the small shops, convenience stores and PX Mart along these two roads.
Ganyuan Elementary School's catchment is three villages, Beiyuan, Xiyuan and Dongyuan, plus neighborhood units (lin) 1 to 6 and 9 to 12 of Ganyuan Village. Most lin of Nanyuan Village belong to Taozijiao Junior High and Elementary School, which is in the Beida Special District.
The Dahan River separates Ganyuan from central Shulin, and you have to cross Ganyuan Bridge to get there. That is why real-estate listings say that although Ganyuan is part of Shulin, daily life is more closely tied to Sanxia's Beida Special District, which is also the shopping area residents go to most.
Convenience ranks last of 100 neighborhoods in New Taipei, healthcare last and everyday shopping third from the bottom. Sidewalks rank third from the bottom.
Real-estate listings say there are few clinics here, so anything serious means going outside the neighborhood to central Shulin or En Chu Kong Hospital; there is no MRT either, and Ganyuan Bridge gets congested at peak times. A city government briefing also calls Ganyuan Street and Jiayuan Road bottlenecks.
Ganyuan Elementary School began in 1911 as the Ganyuan branch of Shulin Public School.
Wikipedia groups the five villages of Ganyuan, Dongyuan, Xiyuan, Nanyuan and Beiyuan as the Ganyuan (Shitouxi) area, and says that because the Dahan River lies in between, it is more closely linked to Sanxia and Yingge. Ganyuan Second Bridge opened in 2011; it is 980 metres long and was built to relieve the long-running congestion on Ganyuan Bridge.
On 15 May 2024 the New Taipei City Government published the New Greater Ganyuan Area Urban Plan for 75 days of public comment. It covers about 621 hectares across Shulin, Sanxia and Yingge and is planned mainly for industry.
In January 2026 the city government said it would speed up development through zone expropriation and urban plan review. The 2024 briefing listed widening Ganyuan Street and Jiayuan Road as an issue for discussion; widening along the existing roads would mean demolishing about 452 buildings, but nothing has been decided.
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NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the New Taipei City Education Department's 2026 school-year catchment lists, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size; "Shared catchment" marks a free-choice zone where families can pick between two or more schools), high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more (OpenStreetMap), and large shopping malls and department stores (OpenStreetMap).
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