Of course, within the confines of this brief article, we can only provide a rough outline, without going into the details of every new construction project. When sketching our blueprint for the future, we have deliberately chosen brevity of style and simplicity of presentation for the charts, graphs, and diagrams which map out our future course. Once public consciousness has been raised to a new level, then hand-in-hand, with heads held high and chests thrust forward, all the citizens of China can join in the march to the future.
Before making his oral report on administration to the Executive Yuan, premier Lee Huan instructed the Government Information Office to edit a report entitled "So Proudly We Hail! Salute to the 21st Century". A copy of the report was given to each legislator at the time of the administrative report.
Ⅰ. Per Capita Income by the Year 2000
By the year 2000, the per capita gross national product in the Republic of China on Taiwan will exceed US$20,000, a level comparable to per capita income in the highly industrialized countries of the West, and one which ranks her among the top twenty countries of the world. Estimates are that by that time the ROC's foreign trade turnover will reach US$350 billion, which will make the ROC the tenth biggest trading country in the entire world. As for social welfare and education, by 2000 all citizens will enjoy the benefits of national health insurance, and the quality of our manpower will have kept pace with progress in other fields. At the same time, because of the continued stability of consumer prices, which are expected to rise an average of only 3.5 percent or less annually, and with continued economic growth averaging 6.5 percent per year, we expect the per capita income and the standard of living of our people to qualify us to join the ranks of the fully developed countries of the world.
Ⅱ. Cultural Achievements
By the year 2000, the affluent society, with its characteristic super-materialism, will have had its full impact in the Taiwan area. The attention of our people will gradually shift from the enjoyment of things and material well-being to the more refined and spiritual side of life, and people will stress quality rather than quantity. More emphasis will be put on enjoying life, on sampling quality products, on moving into the more rarefied atmosphere of high-class and well-designed living quarters, at the same time reaching into the top echelons of fashion--all within the ethos of traditional Chinese culture. Because the legal requirement for twelve years of compulsory education has been set, the extremely tough competition for vacancies in a restricted number of pre-college institutions will gradually relax its stranglehold. This will give students and educators more leeway to pursue a balanced development of aesthetic skills and the capacity for aesthetic appreciation, coupled with the social graces needed for community living. Within colleges and universities, a well-rounded education will make up the deficiencies of an unbalanced curriculum and give due attention to the humanities.
In the Taiwan of tomorrow, an increased proportion of free time will allow the average citizen to enjoy more relaxation, recreation, and entertainment. The average person will find that he or she can devote eight hours to rest and recuperation, and the majority of people will be able to enjoy a five-day workweek. Weekend activities such as mountain climbing, fishing, and camping will figure prominently as leisure outlets.
On the average, the family of the future will devote a third of its income to recreational activities and sightseeing tours. At the beginning of the new century, more space in city and suburb will be allocated to pastimes with an educational value. This includes the establishment of centers for folk arts and popular handicrafts in southern and eastern Taiwan. In the north, Chinese culture parks will be set up. And at the same time at least five large-scale museums will be added to the present number. Exhibition halls displaying the unique features of local and indigenous products will become part and parcel of the cultural centers of every county and town. Small-scale museums performing analogous functions will also be featured as part of this massive renovation, restoration, and rejuvenation program. It will enormously enrich tourist sites and locations of cultural value.
In recent years it has become the custom to erect museums, galleries, and exhibition halls through private subsidy and ownership as opposed to setting up state-run facilities. Bands, dance troupes, orchestras, and puppet shows will continue to spring up and flourish at an astonishing pace. A prominent feature of our program for the future is the construction of libraries and audio-visual centers for every township and every rural district or village.
The 21st century marks the full maturity of the information age. The mass communications media will have penetrated every nook and cranny in the working and thinking hours of the people. Through the robust and healthy development of the public broadcasting system (PBS), live programs can immediately be telecast or diffused by satellite via the medium of PBS. Ordinary antenna-type TV systems will include PBS channels, which will provide the public with a high standard of programming in the arts, sports, and culture.
Beautification of the environment, and urban and rural planning will receive toppriority attention. These newly planned community districts and zones will spring up everywhere and improve the quality of everyday existence. New edifices will include traditional Chinese architectural features, and space for outdoor activities will also be provided for the members of each community, such as playgrounds, parks, and gardens. Community cultural activities will be held regularly during weekends or vacations. A spirit of good neighborliness is sure to prevail, and mutual assistance within an interdependent entity will become common.
In collaboration with religious and civic bodies, the government will endeavor to foster and encourage ethical norms which are in conformity with our present-day society, itself a product of popular customs and mores blended with traditional rites and ceremonies. The beautiful reputation of China as a "land where righteousness and ceremony prevails" will make a renewed and enriched appearance in the international comity of nations.
Ⅲ. Development of National Education
Our educational system has endowed the general public with the ancient Greek ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. This has produced a source of efficient manpower, and it points out the future direction which national education should take. For over twenty years, the government has implemented universal nine-year compulsory education, and the result is a notable improvement in the standard of living and the quality of life, as well as the spread of common sense and general knowledge. When taking stock of the needs and demands of our society in the 21st century, the future goals which we have set for ourselves up to that time and beyond are as follows:
(1) We must enforce our program of at least twelve years of schooling so that the general educational level will rise to include senior high, if not junior college.
(2) Qualitatively, we will increase the ratio of teachers to students, while reducing the size of our classes. In our primary schools today, each class is under the instruction and care of an average of 1.39 teachers. It is planned that by the 1993 academic year, the number of teachers per class will have risen to 1.5, and this standard would be maintained until the turn of the century. As to class size, it is hoped that it can be reduced from the present average of 43 students per class to an average of 40 students per class by the year 1993, with further reductions thereafter until the number will have been reduced to 35 students per class by the year 2000.
The average number of teachers per class in high schools will be raised from 2.04 to 2.2 teachers per class by the first academic year of the new century. The number of students per class will be reduced from the present average of 43.5 students to 35 students by that year.
(3) With respect to the universality of schooling, educational opportunity must be open to everyone. As for the dropout rate from primary to secondary school, it is expected that the full quota of 99.99 percent of the student population will continue their education. After the promulgation of the program for 12-year universal compulsory education, the dropout rate from junior high to senior high will go down from the present figure of 20 percent to less than 10 percent by the academic year 2000.
Ⅳ. Filling Out the Network of National Communications and Transport
Following the growth of urbanization and modernization in the Taiwan area, a massive influx of people from the rural areas to the cities and large towns has occurred. A solution to the problem of communications and transport has become desperately urgent.
A plan for the long-term development of Taiwan's infrastructure has been outlined as follows:
To solve the problem of the over-concentration of population in the cities, a mass rapid-transit system has been drawn up for six major urban zones: Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung. The heart of each city serves as the focal center for a complex trans-portation network which will embrace all the suburban and outlying areas surrounding the city. This network of adjacent satellite townships and villages will contribute to the dispersion of the heavy concentrations of people in the urban centers.
Active steps will be taken to construct a second major superhighway and to start building an express railroad which will link up with the six mass rapid-transit systems. Eventually, this will mean that travel from north to south will be quick and convenient.
An express highway will be built between Taipei and Ilan, and it will be extended to Suao.
Active work will begin on the construction of a southern link railroad between the east and west coasts comparable to its counterpart in the north. This two-way railroad system will complete a round-the-island transportation system.
Steps will be taken to encourage civilian airlines to increase the number of domestic flights and routes.
It is planned to enlarge existing international airports at Taipei and Kaohsiung and to add to the existing equipment so as to meet the demands of rapidly developing international trade and the expanding tourist industry.
More deep-water harbors will be excavated, and there will be an expansion in the volume of goods handled at seaports such as Kaohsiung Harbor and Keelung Harbor. This will enable Taiwan to become an entrepot for ocean communications and transport in the service of international trade and transshipment.
Steps will be taken to accomplish the following: promote the modernization of electronic communications; develop information technology; and improve telephone and telegraph services, with the aim of meeting the needs and demands of a developing society.
After the communications and transport network has been filled out, the quality of these service industries will have been vastly improved, and an equitable and balanced development of the nation from country to city can take place. Then the quality of daily human existence for everyone will improve immeasurably as we march towards the turn of the century.
Ⅴ. Establishing a Science City
All our cities of today will eventually be transformed into science cities. Our economic infrastructure is based on the development of industrial science and technology. This goes hand-in-glove with the modernization of public facilities. Life in all its facets will be favorably affected and changed, including conditions for work, leisure, recreation, entertainment, and domicile.
In close proximity to each other lie Hsinchu County and City, the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, National Tsing Hua University, National Chiao Tung University, and the Industrial Technology Research Institute. The economic stimulus generated by the rapid evolution of the neighboring industrial park at Hsinchu, matched by the intelligence, knowledge, and manpower resources provided by the several nearby academic centers of learning--all these build further on what Hsinchu City already possesses in the way of natural, historical, and cultural advantages. After it has undergone a thoroughgoing facelift, it can serve as a model for the future of what a modern city should be like with respect to how it combines the fruits of technological advance with abundant resources in the humanities.
Within the space of ten or fifteen years, the Hsinchu Zone will have developed into a region boasting of 1-1.2 million inhabitants--a bustling, efficient, and modernized metropolitan zone. It will include within its boundaries not only the old city of Hsinchu, but also the fishing port of Nan Liao, the industrial park, and the newly opened Hopin University City, Hsiang Shan Mountain City and others. This modernized metropolis, this science city, will be expected to produce the following benefits and advantages to society at large:
(1) Promote traditional regional handicrafts, while at the same time establishing high-tech industries, thus contributing to national economic development as well as regional prosperity.
(2) Absorb migrations of people from the north, relieving the population pressure on Taipei, and contributing to the ideal of balanced and equitable development for all of Taiwan.
(3) The development of the science city will double the size of Hsinchu City's commercial district. In time to come, it will be comparable in size to the central commercial sectors of Taichung and Tainan. And the volume of economic activity in Hsinchu's commercial sector will increase more than threefold.
(4) Hsiang Shan Mountain City will become a scenic residential district. It will not only represent the native beauty of the area, but it will also conform to international standards of what an ideal home and residence should be like. As for Hopin University City, it will develop into a grove of academe which will attract the highest talents.
(5) This integrated regional complex will provide others with a model of human ecology worth emulating, one which embodies the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number. Each element in the complex will exist in harmony with the others. Science and the fruits of science will be harmoniously integrated with human life. The modernity and completeness of its public facilities will actively promote a well-rounded existence which is pluralistic in both inspiration and application. The result will not only enhance our international image, but it will also turn us into a model of what modern living should be like.
Ⅵ. Satellites for Scientific Research
The active space projects of technologically-advanced countries in the world such as the United States, the Soviet Union, the European countries, and also nearby Japan, all demonstrate that the development of satellite technology is one of their priority objectives. In October 1988, the Science and Technology Advisory Group of the Executive Yuan formed a Task Force on the Development and Utilization of Satellites in the Republic of China. It brought together professionals from the government, the military, academia, and the general public to study the feasibility of satellite development in the ROC. The Task Force's report was issued six months later, and it noted that the ROC was in an economic and industrial transition which required satellite projects to support knowledge-intensive and technology-intensive industrial development. Given the country's existing economic strengths, its many qualified scientists and technicians, and its high educational standards, the ROC would soon be able to join the ranks of the developed countries in the world.
Requiring five years for the first phase, this self-help program is capable of producing a launch system with relevant peripheral equipment for a 200 pound-payload low orbit scientific satellite. The completion of this stage would also provide the skills needed for the development of a launch system for a satellite with a some-what higher orbit. At the same time, it would permit us to plan and perhaps carry out research work for the next stage; that is, the development of high orbit systems. Other fruits of the first stage are as follows:
(1) It is expected that at least 500 intermediate and high-level space scientists will be trained, all of whom can contribute greatly to the future development of the domestic aeronautics and space industry.
(2) The program will upgrade the ROC's international image and give it more tools with which to pursue diplomatic or substantive relations with other countries.
(3) The completion of the project will demonstrate to the citizenry that the country is richly endowed with qualified personnel and the technology necessary for developing a high orbit geostationary satellite. If there is indeed anything to worry about, it is whether the necessary investment funds will be forthcoming.
(4) Space technology requires adherence to the highest quality standards, and this is sure to upgrade the demand for quality products by industry, government, and the academic sector. This exactly coincides with the ROC's current objective of achieving a comprehensive rise in quality levels in order to promote economic development.
(5) Scientific satellites can be of help in weather forecasting through intensive research using the data they provide on the distribution of solar plasma and precise measurements of the sun's diameter. This research also has the potential for aiding in the systematic integration of industry and the strengthening of national defense.
Ⅶ. Public Housing
Public housing is one of the effective means the government uses to provide housing for low-income households, improve their living conditions, raise their standard of living, and develop the national economy. The July 1982 revisions of the "Regulations on Public Housing" provided for better ways to build public housing. In addition to construction directly by the government, the revisions called for loans to people to build housing for themselves, and it provided for ways to encourage private investment in this field. Over the past 30-odd years, the government has built or issued loans for about 250,000 dwelling units.
Owing to soaring housing prices in the last two years, it is difficult for the average low-income family to buy its own housing. In order to help solve this problem, the government will build more housing itself, issue loans for people to build their own housing or purchase existing units, and encourage private investment in housing construction.
In fiscal year 1990, the government plans to build over 17,000 housing units and issue housing loans to 10,500 families to buy their own premises. In the succeeding 12 years, the government will construct an appropriate amount of housing units, the amount being determined by the number of people on the public housing waiting list. It is estimated that the government will build 200,000 housing units and issue loans for about 120,000 families to buy units of their own.
In the interests of the sound development of urban areas and public investment in infrastructure, the government will change agricultural zones in metropolitan areas into residential zones. Thereupon the government can use the "zone expropriation" formula to lower the cost of land acquisition. This will make it possible to construct reasonably-priced housing and increase the housing supply. The government will build an estimated 170,000 to 220,000 housing units over a four-year period, depending upon the situation with regard to the acquisition of land and the demand and supply of housing.
Ⅷ. National Parks, Leisure, and Recreation
The ROC National Park Law was promulgated in 1972, and beginning in March 1981, the Interior Ministry's Construction and Planning Administration actively laid plans and pushed forward the scheduled project to establish the Kenting, Yushan, Yangmingshan, and Taroko national parks. In each of these locales, a national park management office has been set up. These offices are responsible for national parks management in the Taiwan area. Work on the plan for establising the Orchid Island National Park is well under way.
The goal of national park management is to conserve treasured natural scenic areas in Taiwan which are judged to be of national or international significance. Besides pursuing conservation goals, park administration is aimed at providing sites for scientific studies, educational training, and recreational activities. By the year 2000, it is estimated that the five national parks would record a total of 3.1 million visits.
According to the predictions of the Tourism Bureau, by the year 2000, visits by tourists from overseas would probably pass the 2.9 million mark, and local visits would exceed 110 million. In order to cope with the high level of demand, the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications has drawn up a development plan for the sightseeing and recreational network in the Taiwan area and is actively constructing and managing projects at important scenic spots on the northern coast, the northeastern promontories, the eastern coast, and the Pescadores Islands. Upon completion of plans for construction and park management, work will proceed on providing beach houses, yacht piers, ocean parks, facilities for fishing, sailing and camping, and light aircraft for recreational use. These facilities will help to meet the demand for diversified recreation.
In coordination with the construction of Taiwan Highway No. 3 and the Coastal Highway, the Tourism Bureau plans to develop 47 important leisure and recreational spots along the highways before the year 2000, thus serving the needs of the population concentrated in the western part of Taiwan.
In view of the greater access to improved modes of travel, the Tourism Bureau intends to transform the Yueh-mei Farm in Taichung County into an amusement complex with varied functions. The complex is designed to reflect traditional Chinese culture and yet present the natural sciences and modern science and technology. The Bureau will also promote private investment in tourist hotels and recreational facilities in the area.
In order to improve travel information services and respond to the trend toward international tourist travel, the Tourism Bureau plans to link up the main airports, railway stations, rapid transit stations, and the major cities, creating an efficient network for domestic travel and for international tourist information services.
Ⅸ. The Privatization of Public Enterprises
The privatization of public enterprises is now an international trend. Since the 1970s, advanced countries such as Great Britain and Japan have achieved remarkable success in privatizing public enterprises. In order to adapt to the international environment and to implement the government policy of economic liberalization and internation-alization, it is natural and inevitable that the scope and scale of the operations of state-run enterprises should gradually be reduced.
In an attempt to accelerate the process of privatization, on July 25, 1989, the Executive Yuan established the "Task Force for the Privatization of Public Enterprises" to handle this important assignment. The task force placed 19 state-run enterprises on its initial list for privatization. These included the China Steel Corp., China Petrochemical Development Corp., First Commercial Bank, Hua Nan Commercial Bank, and Chang Hwa Commercial Bank. Further research will be conducted on the possibility of privatizing other public enterprises. In the interim, necessary adjustments will be made in their organization and management to meet the needs of privatization. It is estimated that by the year 2000, all public enterprises will have been privatized, except for the few that are directly related to classified national defense projects or that have clear government policymaking responsibilities. By then, public enterprises will make up an extremely small segment of our economic infrastructure, and even these few will have a considerable proportion of their shares held by private shareholders. At that juncture we will enter a phase of vigorous economic development as we march toward a new era as a mature economy.
Ⅹ. Environmental Conservation and Protection
Working under an overall plan, the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan has taken several important steps since its establishment. It has actively promoted policy reform, set up a sound organizational system, strengthened administration and management, revised or drafted new laws and regulations, provided educational guidance, strictly controlled major sources of pollution, expanded engineering projects, developed technology for environmental protection, established an environmental evaluation system, and set guidelines for resolving disputes caused by pollution. It is predicted that by the year 2000, environmental protection will be guaranteed by law, pollution will be brought under effective control, and the pollution standard index (PSI) will not exceed 100 in the ROC [50-100 is considered "moderate"--ed.]. Heavily polluted river sections will be reduced to the two percent level from the present level of 13 percent, and for reservoirs, from today's 24 percent to 3.6 percent.
Water pollution caused by industrial wastes will be reduced by 75 percent from its present level, and water pollution from animal husbandry will go down by 70 percent.
Offshore water pollution will be improved to a low of 0.4 percent from the current level of 3 percent, and underground water will meet drinking water standards. Seventy percent of all refuse will be disposed of by incineration, 29.5 percent by landfills, and 0.5 percent by composting. Preventive planning and control of hazardous wastes will be instituted and an environmental quality monitoring network set up in order to provide accurate warning and instant response. The Taiwan area will then live up to its reputation of being a beautiful island with blue skies and green meadows, verdant mountains and clear waters.
ⅩⅠ. Health and Medical Care
It is predicted that before the year 2000, childhood infectious diseases such as diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, poliomyelitis, and congenital German measles will be eradicated as a result of widespread vaccination, the improvement of childhood nutrition, and progress in establishing a sanitary environment. Measles will be under effective control, and only a few cases will exist. The incidence of hepatitis B and related liver diseases will also decrease rapidly as a result of the active spread of vaccination.
With regard to the prevention and treatment of diseases peculiar to the middle-aged and the elderly, by the year 2000 there will be a considerable decline in the incidence of cerebral paralysis or heart attack and in the number of deaths or cases of disablement caused by these diseases. This will come about through a nationwide program of checkups for hypertension and diabetes. The average life span of the populace will increase from the present 71.39 years for males to 76.6 years, and from 73 years for females to 78 years.
As a result of economic prosperity and social progress, people expect more social welfare benefits. To meet these expectations and to promote the stability of society, the government decided to institute national health insurance before 1995.
Health is a basic human right. Proper medical care can prevent diseases and preserve health. Our national health insurance is based on the spirit of self-reliance and mutual help as well as the practice of sharing the risks. NHI serves to lessen the financial problems that often prevent people from going to the hospital. This type of social benefit meets the needs of today's society and is greatly desired by the people. But it is not a form of social assistance, and everyone in society should know this.
Up to now, 40 percent of the people in the Taiwan area of the ROC participate in insurance programs such as government employee insurance, labor insurance and health insurance for farmers. The government plans to start out with the present insurance institutions and gradually expand health insurance coverage to the remaining 60 percent of the populace so that everyone can receive health care and medical services to cope with medical needs arising from childbirth, disease or injury.
ⅩⅡ. Social Order
To safeguard the lives and property of the people is always a major concern of the government, one to which it will devote its utmost efforts constantly and without surcease over the long haul. When the rule of law is established in society, openness and freedom are secured while chaos and undisciplined behavior are rejected. The government has already thrown itself into this battle, which permits only victory and not defeat. In the next 12 years the government will carry out the following 10 major plans concerning police administration work: plan for all-out prevention of burglary and violent crime in the Taiwan area; a five-year plan for building up police administration; a program for preventing juvenile delinquency; a plan for opposing economic crime; a plan for actively combatting and halting criminal acts; an action program for augumenting the strength and equipment of police units; a plan of action for strengthening the detection and seizure of illegal guns, ammunition, and knives; a four-year plan for improving prosecution operations and facilities; a medium-term development program for scientific investigation and inspections; and guidelines for police handling of mass activities. When these programs and plans are implemented one-by-one by hard work and the joint cooperation of the police and ordinary people, we will be certain to reach the following goals:
(1) Nurture the people's law-abiding habits and the government's credibility and capacity to maintain public order.
(2) Achieve an all-round reduction in juvenile delinquency, burglary, and violent offenses.
(3) Effectively prevent new forms of economic crime.
(4) Establish an island-wide crime-fighting network and insure social order; eliminate illegal guns and ammunition and block smuggling channels for such items.
(5) Furnish police agencies with the proper experience and capabilities to handle mass activities such as rallies, demonstrations, pleading a case, petitioning, etc.
(6) Increase capabilities for scientific-technological investigation and inspections in order to speed up the solution of cases.
(7) Establish seaborne police organizations to effectively carry out the mission of offshore patrols.
(8) Promote the modernization of computer software and hardware in police administrative work and comprehensively augument the capability of grassroots, professionalized, and mobile police units.
(9) Promote the social status and personal dignity of police personnel and make them respected by people from all walks of life.
(10) Try to encourage the entire populace to participate in the effort to safeguard public security inasmuch as it is everyone's responsibility to maintain social order.
CONCLUSION Prospects for National Construction
According to the estimates of prominent scholars both at home and abroad, if the industrialized nations continue their healthy growth, and if there is no drastic change in the international economic environment, the Republic of China is certain to become a developed nation by the year 2000 as a result of the expansion of the global economy and continued development in the Taiwan area.
If both the government and the people adhere to the established policies of political democratization, economic liberalization, societal pluralization, and cultural sinification; if they speed the development of democratic politics and maintain stable economic growth; and if they progress in related social and cultural respects--all this will mean that all sectors in our nation will develop in a balanced way and forge ahead jointly.
In sum, our policies must be forward-looking, integrated, and steadfast. By the end of this century, we must establish a complete system of laws and regulations, develop a hi-tech industrial structure, fill the gaps in modernized public facilities, carry out well-planned social security and welfare policies, and at the same time expand our particiaption in international activities. If we succeed in doing this, there is no doubt that we will create an advanced, prosperous, healthy, happy, and more balanced society in Taiwan by the year 2000.
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With the continued development of the ROC economy, per capita national income will reach US$20,000, reaching the standards of the developed countries.
Per Capita GNP in the ROC (1951-2000) & (picture)
Future cultural construction will tend to the "refinement of life," with rich cultural and tourism resources.
Twelve year compulsory public education will give over 90% of the next generation at least a high school education.
The main direction of future education is to develop conscientious, healthy citizens and an effective workforce.
In order to match modernization in Taiwan, sound transportation facilities will be a main focus of government work over the next twelve years.
The ROC plans to develop aerospace technology. In the next five years a 200 pound loworbital satellite will be launched, carrying knowledge-and technology-intensive industry up with it. (Sinorama file photo)
In the next twelve years the government will change some agricultural areas into residential zones and build over 200,000 housing units, improving the quality of life for middle and lower income households.
In 2001, the Taiwan area will have five national parks; the number of visitors could reach 13 million visits per year. (Sinorama file photo)
Twelve years from now, expenses for travelling will take up one third of citizens' consumer expenditures. Developing tourist and leisure resources is thus an urgent task. (Sinorama file photo)
Under comprehensive planning by the Environmental Protection Administration, it is expected by 2001 that the country will be an "environmental rule of law society," and all forms of pollution will be controlled.
The implementation of the policy of covering all citizens with national health insurance will occur in 1995. (Sinorama file photo)
When better waste disposal and environmental monitoring facilities are completed, Taiwan will really fit its Portuguese name "Ilha Formosa" (beautiful island).
Establishment of a National Medical Care Network: Planned Schedule of Change(picture)
Future cultural construction will tend to the "refinement of life," with rich cultural and tourism resources.
Twelve year compulsory public education will give over 90% of the next generation at least a high school education.
The main direction of future education is to develop conscientious, healthy citizens and an effective workforce.
In order to match modernization in Taiwan, sound transportation facilities will be a main focus of government work over the next twelve years.
In the next twelve years the government will change some agricultural areas into residential zones and build over 200,000 housing units, improving the quality of life for middle and lower income households.
The ROC plans to develop aerospace technology. In the next five years a 200 pound loworbital satellite will be launched, carrying knowledge-and technology-intensive industry up with it. （Sinorama file photo）
Twelve years from now, expenses for travelling will take up one third of citizens' consumer expenditures. Developing tourist and leisure resources is thus an urgent task. （Sinorama file photo）
In 2001, the Taiwan area will have five national parks; the number of visitors could reach 13 million visits per year. （Sinorama file photo）
Under comprehensive planning by the Environmental Protection Administration, it is expected by 2001 that the country will be an "environmental rule of law society," and all forms of pollution will be controlled.
The implementation of the policy of covering all citizens with national health insurance will occur in 1995. （Sinorama file photo）
When better waste disposal and environmental monitoring facilities are completed, Taiwan will really fit its Portuguese name "Ilha Formosa" （beautiful island）.
Establishment of a National Medical Care Network: Planned Schedule of Change（picture）
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