Kaohsiung is located at the pivot of Asia-Pacific airlines and seaways traffic. It
has been the second largest metro city of Taiwan. Since 1979 as Kaohsiung was
switched to be a municipality directly under the Central Government after its
population was increased over 1 million, now there are 1.5 million (April 2009)
living in the city. Within the city, besides the Kaohsiung harbor, a natural
deep-water port well-known as a container transshipment, there is also
Hsiao-Kang international airport that makes Kaohsiung one of the rare cities with
both seaport and airport. In addition, it contains abundantly solid industrial
foundations such as the export processing zones, steel industry, petrochemical
industry, cement plants, and various kinds of large-scale heavy industry regions.
It has been the important strategic city for heavy industry and manufacturing
industry, the locomotive engine of economic development of Taiwan, and has
driven the first wave of Taiwan¡¦s economic development miracle since 1960s .
However, as the industrial policy adjusted, the Central Government establishes
Hsinchu Science Park in which not only attracts excellent professionals to join,
but also continues to expand the business niche as well as asset size. The
developmental gap between the Northern and the Southern Taiwan has thus been
widened. In terms of industry activities and living functionalities, the difference
deepens even more.
Over the past decade, the traditional basic industries have been impacted by factors
of going west (to mainland China) or south (to ASEAN markets), and Kaohsiung
--- a city with function of both seaport and airport as well as heavy industries ---
is lacking motive power of deep plowing and moment of essential growth during
the process of industrial development. It is a challenge for Kaohsiung to
transfer from a highly-polluted heavy industrial city to develop brand new
industries or enhance added values of the current industries through the
transformation of traditional industry.
Kaohsiung has competitive advantages, including "international gateway
with both harbor & airport" and "industry diversification", still it is situated at the
pivotal location of south Taiwan, which is not replaceable. Although the
traditional industries still influence and benefit Kaohsiung¡¦s economy, they begin
to face operational difficulties while facing global economic change or shifting.
Therefore it is an imperative topic of how to embark on upgrading or renewing
Kaohsiung¡¦s industries so as to enhance professional techniques and increase
economic benefits greatly.
Moreover, since the new government inaugurated in May 2008, the Cross-Straits
relations are getting smooth gradually which makes direct aircraft transportation
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possible. Besides, the global financial tsunami happened in the second half of
2008 has impacted the traditional industries seriously. How to assist the
industries to get through the crisis is the very issue worth thinking and
discussion.
Therefore it is necessary to investigate and analyze the developmental status quo
as well as the direction of future transformation of Kaohsung¡¦s industries,
furthermore, to work out plans, and practical strategies for encouraging industries.
In cooperation with the governing requirements of Kaohsiung City Government,
the purposes of this research are as follows:
1 to collect and manage transformative cases of domestic and oversea industries,
and to investigate in terms of local viewpoint, the role of Kaohsiung
industries, and the future development trends.
2. through ¡§Kaohsiung-Pingtung Development Strategy¡¨ to analyze the status
quo of Kaohsiung industries, and to discuss feasible directions of industry
transformation.
3. to investigate the difficulties and impediment of Kaohsiung industry
transformations and industry upgrades, and to understand the role of
Kaohsiung¡¦s industry in cooperation with developmental needs of the
Central Government and the regional areas,
4. to work out and propose the supplementary measures and implementation
strategies for Kaohsiung¡¦s industry transitions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0907109-164448 |
| Date | 07 September 2009 |
| Creators | Lin, Chin-tien |
| Contributors | Po-Wen Cheng, Ying-fang Huang, 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-0907109-164448 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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