Nantun Taimao No. 5 Village

One of three adjacent military dependents’ villages on the Dadu Plateau (大肚台地) alongside Gancheng No. 6 Village and Mazu No. 2 Village (馬祖二村). It was established in 1961 by the National Women’s League (婦聯會) under Soong Mei-ling (宋美齡), financed by donations and a special levy on the import and export traders’ guild, from which it took its name, literally “Taiwan Trade”. Its three classes of housing held more than 300 households, mostly the families of officers and NCOs from the reserve division and training center at Chenggongling (成功嶺) and from the armored corps. The villages were largely razed from 2004 under the military village redevelopment program, their residents resettled in the Guo’an Public Housing (國安國宅) in Xitun. The painted remnant of Mazu No. 2 survives nearby as Rainbow Village.