No gold on Gold Mountain The old name for Chinshan was "Chinpaoli." The Pingpu (Plains) Aboriginal people who came to be called the Ketagalan during the Japanese colonial period were its first inhabitants.
金山不產金金山鄉舊名「金包里」，最早的住民為平埔族，日治時期稱為凱達格蘭族（Ketagalan）。