從航空照片可見證地景的變遷。1945年美軍航照圖呈現本區為「日本第六海軍燃料廠新竹支場」之臺籍員工宿舍，見證了新竹重要的科技及工業發展脈絡。從1976年航照圖可見清楚的金城新村89戶眷舍，及竹人托兒所、金城診療所、村自治會等設施。隨著時代變遷，老舊的眷舍已不堪用，1996年通過眷村改建政策，2016年可見金城新村及周邊眷村遂改建為「華夏金城」，將軍村園區尚未修復，尚存的日遺防空洞及眷村老樹與周邊的新大樓互相呼應，見證時代變遷。
Landscape Change in Generals’ Village
The aerial photographs bear testimony to the landscape change. Witnessing the technological and industrial development in Hsinchu, the aerial photographs taken by US Armed Forces in 1945 illustrated that this area was the Taiwanese employee dormitory of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Sixth Fuel Factory, Hsinchu Branch. The aerial photographs taken in 1976 clearly showed the facilities in Jincheng New Village, including 89 houses, Zhu-Ren Preschool, Jincheng Clinic, and a villagers’ self-governing organization. Over the course of time, the buildings have been left to lie derelict. Under the Act for Rebuilding Old Quarters for Military Dependents passed in 1996, Jincheng New Village and other military dependents villages around it were transformed into “Huaxia Jincheng.” The remaining air-raid shelters and old trees in the original military dependents villages echo the new buildings in the immediate surroundings, standing as testimony to the change of the times.
