Mingdao Garden City beside Mingdao High School, with four schools and MRT Jiude Station all inside the neighbourhood
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This neighborhood is known for its schools. The oldest name on the block is Mingdao High School, founded in 1959 as Wuxun High School; it wasn't renamed Mingdao until a new board of directors took over in 1969. The area around Xingxiang Street next to the school is called Mingdao Garden City, and when newspapers talk about the Wuri commercial area, they treat it as separate from the Wuri Station commercial area. The neighborhood also has three public schools: Jiude Elementary School, Qiaoren Elementary School, and Guangde Junior High School. It's also densely populated — Jiude Village has the largest population in Wuri, with 15,546 residents at the end of 2025, the ninth most populous in all of Taichung. MRT Green Line's Jiude Station sits right on Jianguo Road within the neighborhood.
School catchments are simple: Jiude Elementary School takes in all of Jiude Village, while Qiaoren Elementary School takes in all of Rende Village and Qianzhu Village. The name of Guangde Junior High School comes from "two Guang, three De" in its catchment — the five villages of Guangming, Wuguang, Jiude, Rende, and Qianzhu. For public transit, this neighborhood ranks 9th out of Taichung's 47 neighborhoods, with Jiude Station averaging about 1,577 entries and exits per day in 2022.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 42nd out of Taichung's 47 neighborhoods in the lower tier, so buying groceries and daily necessities may mean a longer walk. Buildings, as seen in street photos, rank 45th, also in the lower tier.
In December 1959, Wuxun High School was founded; ten years later a new board of directors took over and renamed it Mingdao High School. After the August 7 Flood earlier that year, overseas Chinese donations helped rebuild the disaster area, and one of those donations became Qiaoren Elementary School, established in 1961 as the Jiude Branch of Wuri Elementary School. Guangde Junior High School was approved for establishment in 1998; its first incoming class in 2000 borrowed classrooms at Qiaoren Elementary School before moving into its new campus in 2001.
Outside the neighborhood, the Jiude zone expropriation project covers about 29.87 hectares near Jiuzhangli Station; construction began in November 2024 and is expected to finish by the end of 2027.
Compared with the 47 Taichung neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the Taichung City Education Bureau's catchment tables for the 2023 (elementary) and 2022 (junior high) school years, the latest the city has published as open data, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size), high schools and universities inside or within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more (OpenStreetMap), and large shopping malls and department stores (OpenStreetMap).
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