Blocks of flats grown from lotus ponds and paddy fields, with school runs and shopping all on Zhongping Road
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The Zhonggang area was once low, waterlogged lotus ponds and rice paddies; only after the population swelled rapidly did it fill up with block after block of flats. Zhonggang Elementary School, founded in 1975, had as many as five or six thousand pupils between 1981 and 1991, until new schools were set up to spread them out.
Rongfu Elementary School, in the neighbouring catchment, took its first intake in 1990 with about 1,720 first-year pupils. Its new buildings were not yet finished, so classes were held in borrowed rooms at Zhonggang Elementary School.
Head west to Zhongping Road, where Xinzhuang Senior High School, the Xinzhuang Culture and Arts Center and Carrefour all stand; the road is also known as Xinzhuang's cultural and educational district.
Daily shopping ranks 5th among New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods and healthcare ranks 4th, both near the top. The hypermarket is right on Zhongping Road, so you don't have to leave this neighborhood for groceries.
The 12 villages in this neighborhood are split between two adjoining catchments, Zhonggang and Rongfu. Zhongxin and Zhongping villages belong wholly to Rongfu Elementary School, and Zhongtai, Lizhi, Liji and other villages wholly to Zhonggang Elementary School.
Public transport ranks 65th among New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods, toward the lower end of the middle tier. There is no MRT station in this neighborhood; the nearest, Touqianzhuang Station, is outside it to the south-east. Greenery ranks 96th, also toward the bottom.
Around Zhongrong Street near Rongfu Elementary School, 135 households live in five-storey walk-up blocks built in 1987 and 1988. In 2015 the buildings were found to have high chloride levels in their concrete (so-called sea-sand buildings), and in 2019 the city government designated the site an urban renewal area.
Zhonggang Road takes its name from Zhonggangcuo, where it runs, and was Xinzhuang's first north–south road. From the late Qing dynasty to the early Japanese colonial period, Zhonggangcuo was a jiezhuang (rural administrative unit), with Touqianzhuang to its east.
In 1920 it was reorganised as Zhonggangcuo Dazi, and after the war it became a village; as the population grew it was subdivided into the twelve villages of today's neighborhood and several around it.
The schools' dates also show the years of rapid growth: Zhonggang Elementary School was founded in 1975, and Rongfu Elementary School took its first pupils in 1990. Xinzhuang Senior High School was founded in 1992, and in its first year it too borrowed classrooms, at Xintai Elementary School.
For the Zhongrong Street renewal project, residents formed their own renewal association in 2016 to take it on, and the plan went on public display in August 2024. It calls for rebuilding as two 27-storey towers with 323 homes in total.
Compared with the 100 New Taipei neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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