Analysis of Regional Economic Cooperation Strategies
between Penghu and Mainland Special Economic Zones
on the West Coast of Taiwan Straits
Abstract
After the establishment of air and sea transportation links between Taiwan and
China, Penghu, which is geographically situated in the center of the cross-strait links
shall make good use of its transfer function, by taking advantage of its tax incentives
(duty-free) stipulated in "Offshore Island Development Act" and "Cross-strait Mini
Three Link Policy" to develop new industries that can satisfy the requirements of
"import consumption" and "export promotion." Penghu may foster closer economic
and trade ties between Taiwan and Fujian Province, promote cross-strait tourism,
expand cultural exchange, and develop sustainable industries that are necessary for
continuing the economic prosperity.
This study was conducted by a team of three students using the interactive
management approach to tackle the main theme of regional cooperative strategies
between Penghu and the Mainland special economic zones on the west coast of
Taiwan Straits. The researchers looked into the sub-title issues from the economical,
social, and governmental aspects respectively. The theoretical framework of this study
was based on the public affairs management and research method -- Interactive
Management (IM). To make the research results more comprehensive, the interactive
management approach was combined with two methods often used in framework
analysis: nominal group technology (NGT) and interpretative structure model (ISM).
Together with literature review, expert interviews and data collection methods, the
researchers gathered all relevant information about Penghu so as to provide a more
objective basis for exploring the strategic economic cooperation between Penghu and
the Mainland special economic zone on the west coast of Taiwan Straits. To ensure
good progress in the panel discussion and anticipate fruitful results from discussions
of various sub-titles to turn into specific strategies, the interactive discussion seminar
invited local representatives in order to incorporate the views of the people in Penghu.
This information can provide reliable reference for the central government planning
units in their policy formulation process.
Using this approach can solve the problem of suspending issues whenever the
interactive management (IM) is used. The seminar was joined by 27 representatives
from all walks of life. The NGT process started from exposing the issues, clarifying
the issues, voting for the issues, to making paired comparisons, supplemented by ISM
software, and finally resulted in enhanced structural clearness and visually
understandable connectivity. After panel discussions over the structural charts,
appropriate revisions, and confirmation of a final version, 12 economic strategies
were produced from discussions of regional cooperation between Penghu and the
Mainland special economic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan Straits.These
recommendations are given below: (1) requesting the Ministry of Communications to
instruct the maritime and aviation companies to open scheduled transport lines within
the shortest time for Makung-Kinmen, Penghu-Xiamen, and Penghu¡VShantou lines,
and to extend the links gradually to other cities on the west coast of the straits; (2)
directing Penghu to work with officials of mainland special economic zones on the
west coast of the Straits for development of free trade zones ; it should be consulted
through the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and the Association for Relations
Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) to establish a fair and transparent cooperative
mechanism in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of people on both
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sides of the Straits; (3) transforming Penghu into an international duty free zone; (4)
requesting Penghu County Government units or related non-governmental
organizations to communicate with relevant parties on the other side of the Straits to
open forums for discussion of co-operative strategies between Penghu and mainland
special economic zones on the west coast of the straits; (5) suggesting the Penghu
County Government to ask for more funding for establishing marine life and culture
zones, in order to promote green tourism and economic development; (6) requesting
Penghu County Government to promote tourism and gaming industries, and also to
give more thinking on other possibilities (for example ocean biotech industry); (7)
requesting the central government to release the remote island transportation lines to
outside operators using market competition to reduce the cost of air fares and enhance
tourism competitiveness; (8) suggesting Penghu to proactively develop indoor and
outdoor theme parks, on land and at sea, as well as opening of other shopping malls;
(9) requesting the central government to lift the bans on the islands development so as
to allow foreign and mainland investments to participate in Penghu's preferential land
and housing projects, in turn to boost the prosperity of the Penghu area; (10)
recommending the Penghu County Government to ask the Taiwan Power Company to
strengthen the capacity of wind power, and asking the Taiwan water company to
enhance the production of desalination water; (11) suggesting the government
agencies to map out the development plans for Penghu and to find suitable areas that
can draw the interests of outside contractors in order to strengthen the development
and enhancement of their own standards, and to attract more mainland tourists to the
island; and (12) suggesting the two sides of the Straits to sign reciprocal tax
agreements to reduce the time and labor costs so as to enhance the marketing and
promotion of special products with Penghu characteristics.
The relationship between individual strategies needs to be further clarified for
strengthening and production of enhanced structural connections, in order to
determine the priority of strategies and their objective goals. The participants also felt
that the most urgent task is to integrate the communication platform between the
central and local government units in order to establish effective communication that
will help the planning and implementation of cross-strait policies, and in turn
conducive to smooth working with other strategies.
More public forums shall be set up for open dialogue with various government
units. This issue is to be delayed no further, and all strategies shall be given the best
implementation, and shall ask local people to take part in public discussions that can
facilitate the building of a citizen society.
Keywords: Penghu County, Economic Zone on the West Coast of Taiwan
Straits,Public Affairs Management¡]PAM¡^, interactive management,
regional cooperation
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0817109-161931 |
| Date | 17 August 2009 |
| Creators | Hsu, Wen-chang |
| Contributors | Ning Chang, Bing-Yan Lu, Shu-Shin Lin, Peng Chin Peng, Ming-shen wang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0817109-161931 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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