Hsieh Tung-min, secretary-general at the Taiwan Provincial Government Secretariat, was assigned to oversee the planning process in 1955 by Yen Chia-kan, the fifth governor of Taiwan Province.
中興新村曾經是政府刻意規劃的新市鎮，由第五任省主席嚴家淦派遣當時的省府秘書長謝東閔在一九五五年奉命規劃。