Hydraulic fracturing technique is one of the most widely acceptedin-situ stress determination method in rock strata. The methodutilizes the measurement of pressure required to initiate andreopen fractures in a sealed section of a borehole and the impression taking of the fracturing plane to determine the magnitudesand orientation of the in-situ rock stresses.This paper describes the first application of the method in Taiwan in the in-situ stress measurement along Pinglin tunnelalignment. It discusses the equipments, testing procedure, testresults and their interpretations. The results show that the ratiosof maximum and minimum horizontal stresses to the overburden stressare about 1.1 and 0.6 in average, and the bearing of themaximum horizontal stress is about N30°E. These were found to bein agreement with the results estimated by using theoretical studyand tectonic evidences.