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  1. Vision, Goals and Strategy
     

  2. The Necessity of the Ten New Major Construction Projects
     

  3. Principles of Project Selection
     

  4. Details of the Ten New Major Construction Projects
     

  5. Funding Requirements for the Ten New Major Construction Projects
     

  6. Anticipated Benefits
     

  7. Features of the Ten New Major Construction Projects
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IV. Details of the Ten New Major Construction Projects

Investment in human resources and innovative research and development--NT$50 billion (10 percent)

  1. Top-notch universities and research centers--NT$50 billion (10.0 percent)
    Knowledge-based industries and cultural creativity--NT$100.5 billion (20 percent)
     

  2. International arts and popular music centers--NT$33.4 billion (6.7 percent)
     

  3. "M" (Mobile) Taiwan Project--NT$37 billion (7.4 percent)
     

  4. Taiwan Exposition--NT$30.1 billion (6.0 percent)
    Global logistics and international competitiveness--NT$107.9 billion (22 percent)
     

  5. Conversion of Taiwan Railway System to Rapid Transit Network--NT$39.9 billion (8.0 percent)
     

  6. Third-phase freeways--NT$43.9 billion (8.8 percent)
     

  7. Kaohsiung Harbor Intercontinental Container Center--NT$24.2 billion (4.8 percent)
    Convenient living and sustainable environment--NT$212.8 billion (43 percent)
     

  8. Mass rapid transit systems in northern, central and southern Taiwan--NT$142 billion (28.4 percent)
     

  9. Wastewater treatment system--NT$39.4 billion (7.9 percent)
     

  10. Lowland reservoirs and desalination plants--NT$31.5 billion (6.3 percent)

1. Top-notch universities and research centers

Goals: To establish first-class universities and train top talent

a. Within five years, at least 15 departments or cross-university research centers ranking first in Asia

b. Within ten years, at least one university ranking among the world’s top 100

Methods: By awarding funding of NT$10 billion per year through competitive grants, the government will promote university reform and resource integration as means of establishing inter-university research centers and developing first-class universities and top academic research centers in Asia to enhance Taiwan’s research and development foundation.

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$50 billion

2. International arts and popular music centers

Goals: Communities in northern, central, southern, and eastern Taiwan will be able to provide exhibition and performance venues for international arts and culture, which will propel Taiwan to become a creative center for Chinese popular music and performance.

Methods: In northern Taiwan: New Taipei Metropolitan Opera House (Banciao)

In central Taiwan: Guggenheim Museum (Taichung)
In southern Taiwan: Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum (Chiayi), Weiwuying Art Center
In eastern Taiwan: Austronesian Cultural Park
Popular music centers in northern, central, and southern Taiwan (locations to be decided by popular vote among young people)

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$33.4 billion

3. "M" (Mobile) Taiwan Project

Goals: Taiwan will build the world’s first seamless double network environment for application services and give impetus to developing communications into a new trillion-NT-dollar industry.

Methods: Promoting the installation of 6,000 kilometers of broadband cable to solve subscriber loop problems and integrating mobile Internet and wireless to create an island-wide seamless double network

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$37 billion
Civil investment for 2004 to 2008: NT$98.2 billion

4. Taiwan Exposition

Goals: To showcase Taiwan’s vitality and creativity and propel the overall development of science and technology, tourism and cultural infrastructure

Methods:

  1. Select two high-speed railway stations as locations for the Taiwan Exposition 2008

  2. Hold an exhibit on the preservation of Taiwan’s historical and cultural heritage in conjunction with the exposition

  3. Hold a series of events on science and technology, tourism and culture in conjunction with the exposition and encourage nationwide participation to demonstrate Taiwan’s vitality

  4. Actively promote connecting transportation services along the high-speed railway and strengthen development of adjacent new cities and townships

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$30.1 billion

5. TRA Rapid Transit Plan

Goals: To coordinate with the beginning of high-speed railway service in 2005, the Taiwan Railway System will be transformed into a metropolitan and regional mass rapid transit network by adding new stations, increasing trains, and building elevated and underground tracks. The transformation will give the Taiwan Railway Administration a new lease on life and bring urban renewal to districts along the new lines.

Eight sections to be converted to rapid transit:

1. Keelung-Taipei-Taoyuan rapid transit system

2. Taoyuan-Jhongli-Miaoli rapid transit system

3. Fongyuan-Tanzih-Taichung-Wurih rapid transit system

4. Construction of elevated railway in Yuanlin

5. Construction of elevated railway in Chia-I

6. Construction of underground railway in Tainan

7. Construction of underground railway in Kaohsiung

8. Kaohsiung-Pingtung-Chaojhou rapid transit system

Three new branch lines

9. New express railway connecting Yilan, Hualien, and Taitung

10. New branch line connecting Hsinchu and Neiwan

11. New branch line connecting Tainan and Shalun

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$39.9 billion
Private-sector investment for 2004 to 2008: NT$3.7 billion

6. Third-phase freeways

Goals: The government will develop tourism resources in Yilan, Hualien, Taitung and Nantou, facilitate the convenience of daily life in the metropolitan areas of northern, central, and southern Taiwan, and expand the expressway network to connect the Sun Yat-sen Freeway and the Second Freeway.

Details:

Developing tourism

  • Suao-Hualien Freeway (86 km) TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED

  • Nantou section of National Route 6 (38 km)

Making life more convenient

  • Taipei Harbor connecting road (10.9 km)

  • Special Route 2 in Taipei County (16.9 km)

  • Integration of the Fongyuan-Wufong section of National Route 4 with the Route 4 Business Loop in the Taichung area (32 km)

  • Connecting road between National Route 8 and the Western Coastal Expressway (6 km)

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$43.9 billion

7. Kaohsiung Harbor Intercontinental Container Center

Goals: To establish a next-generation intercontinental deep-water container harbor to serve as the Asian stop for 15,000-TEU container ships and expand capacity at Kaohsiung Harbor

Items: 1. Expanding Kaohsiung Harbor’s Second Container Center

2. Relocating Hongmao Port and building a new intercontinental container center at Kaohsiung Harbor

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$24.2 billion
Private-sector investment for 2004 to 2008: NT$10.2 billion

8. Mass rapid transit systems in northern, central and southern Taiwan

Goals: Plans call for the construction of mass rapid transit systems totaling 182 kilometers to speed up mass urban transportation in Taiwan’s northern, central and southern metropolitan areas.

In the north—six lines and one loop

Sinjhuang Line (19.7km)
Lujhou Line (6.4km)
Neihu Line (14.8km)
Sinyi Line (6.4km)
Songshan Line (8.5km)
Airport Line (51.5km)
Beltway Line (14.2km)

In the center—greater Taichung’s first rapid transit system

Wurih-Wunsin-Beitun Line (16.5km)

In the south—two intersecting lines and one loop

Intersecting Red and Orange lines (42.7km)
Kaohsiung Harbor Loop (17km)

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$142 billion.
Private-sector investment for 2004 to 2008: NT$45.4 billion.

9. Wastewater treatment system

Goals: To improve the living environment, raise water quality, and restore beautiful rivers and seashores

Methods:

  1. In addition to the annual budget allocated for wastewater disposal, a special budget of NT$5 billion will bring total governmental investment in wastewater systems to more than NT$10 billion per year.

  2. Incentives will be promoted to encourage private-sector construction of wastewater facilities.

  3. From 2004 to 2008, a total of NT$100 billion will be invested in wastewater treatment in an effort to more than double the percentage of users connected to the public wastewater treatment network, from 10.7 percent in June of 2003 to 27.3 percent in 2008, and increase the overall percentage of wastewater treated from 20.7 percent to 37.1 percent.

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$39.4 billion.
Administrative budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$38.6 billion.
Private-sector investment for 2004 to 2008: NT$26.7 billion.

10. Lowland reservoirs and desalination plants

Goals:

  1. Construct reservoirs in the lowlands instead of the high mountains in order to solve the problem of water shortages and create a new landscape of multi-use artificial lakes that serve the interests of water resources, tourism, and the environment

  2. Build seawater desalination plants to solve the serious water shortage problems at the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park and offshore islands

Methods:

  1. Construct four artificial lake reservoirs in the lowlands: Taoyuan Lake (200 hectares), Yunlin Lake (800 hectares), Tainan Lake (400 hectares), and Gaoping Lake (600 hectares). Two thousand hectares of lake area is equivalent to two and half Sun Moon Lakes and 18 Chengcing Lakes.

  2. Build seawater desalination plants in Kinmen, Mazu, Penghu, and the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park

Special budget for 2004 to 2008: NT$31.5 billion
Private-sector investment for 2004 to 2008: NT$18.8 billion

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