Chin-Tao Huang, a resident of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, has been officially validated as a supercentenarian by LongeviQuest today. At the age of 111 years and 82 days, she is one of the oldest living residents of Australia and is officially the first validated supercentenarian born in Taiwan.
Chin-Tao Huang (黄金桃) was born in Rokutani Village, Chikusan District, Taichū Prefecture, Empire of Japan (now Taiwan), on 15 May 1915, as the seventh child of eight children to parents Xie Hsieh and Liu Ma-Tuan Hsieh. She grew up in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period, so she is fluent in Japanese. Her father was the chief of the village and sent her to primary school. She completed six years of education.
She married Chih-Jen Huang (b. 1910) on 15 January 1939 in Sharen Hō, Nantō Chō, Empire of Japan (present-day Shuili Township, Nantou County, Taiwan), when she was 23 and he was 28. They moved a bit at the start of their marriage, but her optimism, easy-going nature and generosity meant they made friends easily. They had five children together: two daughters and three sons. When her husband’s truck business became successful, they were able to afford the tuition fees and all their children had education and some even studied abroad. They remained together until his death in June 1984.
In Australia in 2015, aged 100, with her oldest and youngest children.
After the death of her husband, she moved to Australia in 1985 to help her youngest daughter who had three children, including a newborn. Despite not speaking English, she taught herself the numbers in English as well as some basic words, such as “thank you” and “sorry”, enough so she could go to the markets and purchase food. She has also lived in other countries where her children emigrated to such as Thailand and Bolivia and has returned to Taiwan numerous times. Her last trip to Taiwan was for her grandson’s wedding when she was 98 years old.
When asked about the secret to her long life, she would always say: “Go to bed early and get up early”. She would also say she was told by a Japanese teacher to only eat until you were 80% full. She never smoked or drank but loves eating meat, especially chicken and duck. Given her parents lived to their late 80s, Chin Tao’s family believes there is a clear genetic that influenced to her longevity.
In 2025, visited by local Member of Parliament on her 110th birthday, with daughter and son-in-law.
At the moment, she is the second-oldest (known) living person in the state of Victoria, after Linda Williams, and one of the oldest living residents of Australia.
(To learn more about her remarkable life, please take a look at her biographical profile.)
We would like to extend our sincere thanks to her family for sharing her life story with us, providing photographs and biographical information, and supplying the documentation required to complete the validation process.
