Jinning, Kinmen

Jinning Township (Chinese: 金寧鄉; pinyin: Jīnníng Xiāng; Wade–Giles: Chin¹-ning² Hsiang¹; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kim-lêng-hiong) is a rural township in Kinmen, Republic of China.

It is in the Taiwan Strait, on the coast of mainland China.

[5] In 1913, Sen-you Li (李森佑) founded the Guning Advanced Elementary School (古寧高等小學).

[6][7] In October 1949, today's Jinning Township was the site of the Battle of Kuningtou.

[8] In 1999, the Kinmen County Government established a horseshoe crab conservation area of about 800 hectares in the tidal flat[9] northwest of Guningtou (Ku-ning-t'ou,[9] 古寧頭[9]).

Jinning Township Office
Map including the Jinning Township area (1954)