President Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republican was the guest of President Chiang for the Double Tenth and joined China's chief executive in addressing a quarter of a million gathered in Taipei's Presidential Square.
These events are detailed in two articles in this issue.
Vice President C.K. Yen made a 25th anniversary address to the United Nations and met with President Nixon and Vice President Agnew in Washington. His trip and recognition developments at the United Nations are considered in a separate article.
The long-awaited revision of the Statute for the Encouragement of Investment went to the Legislative Yuan for debate and expected enactment before the end of the year, when the present law will expire.
These are major contemplated changes:
-Provision of tax incentives for productive enterprises operated by farm and fishery associations and for warehouses and heavy machinery industries.
-Elimination of the five-year tax holiday for enterprises which expand their productive capacity. Instead, the government will permit a faster depreciation write-off for capital equipment.
-Reduction of the corporate income tax by 10 per cent for companies offering 20 to 30 per cent of total or newly issued shares on the stock market, which has not been a large producer of capital in recent years.
-Easier acquisition of industrial land.
Most of the former incentives will be retained, although there may 'be a closer look at foreign and overseas Chinese investments in certain categories. Heavy and sophisticated industry will receive special encouragement.
The Overseas Chinese and Foreign Investment Commission reported that US$518 million in external capital had flowed into Taiwan between 1952 and October 1 of this year. Of this, US$145 million (28 per cent) came from overseas Chinese.
Approved applications totaled 1,251, of which 678 were from overseas Chinese.
The report, made to a conference of more than 150 overseas Chinese sponsored by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the Legislative Yuan, included these additional statistics on investment by Chinese living abroad:
Capital for 443 factories (65.5 per cent) came from Hongkong. The amount invested was US$60 million (41.5 per cent). Japan ranked second at 76 factories (11 per cent) and US$13.7 million (9.5 per cent). Other overseas Chinese investments have come from the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, the Ryukyus, United States and Brazil.
Service industries were favored at first. More recent investors have gone into textiles, electronics, yacht building, metals and optics.
Twenty marketing experts divided into eight groups were off to various parts of world. A textile group of three was to visit Southeast and Northeast Asia, Europe and the United States. Other groups and the areas to be visited:
-Electronics: United States, Canada and Japan.
-Radio, TV and electrical appliances: United States and Canada.
-Steel and machinery: Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
-Plastics and rubber footwear: Hongkong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
-PVC and yacht building: Hongkong, Japan, United States and Canada.
-Plywood, wood and bamboo: Japan, United States and Canada.
-Canned and frozen foods: Europe, United States and Canada.
Other trade missions were dispatched to Belgium for talks with the Common Market group and to various individual European countries.
The China External Trade Development Council announced plans to set up trade offices in Asia, Europe and the United States next year. Sites will be Tokyo, Hongkong, Singapore, Hamburg, Amsterdam, New York and San Francisco.
Government announced plans to extend loans to Taiwan manufacturers selling machinery or industrial products abroad on a deferred payment basis. Loans may not exceed 90 per cent of the value of the export and will be paid in NT dollars.
Foreign trade for the first eight months of 1970 reached US$1,965 million, a gain of 33 per cent over the same period in 1969. Exports were US$991 million, up 38.5 per cent, and imports US$974 million, a gain of 27.8 per cent. A favorable trade balance was in sight for the year for the first time since 1964.
Export leaders were textiles, electrical apparatus, wood products, metals, fishery products, sugar and cement. Imports were topped by machinery, electrical apparatus, chemicals, metals and transportation equipment.
Biggest trading partner was the United States with exports of US$367 million and imports of US$297 million for a favorable balance of US$70 million. Japanese trade was unfavorable with US$147 million in exports and US$312 million in imports for a total of US$459 million.
Export of processed goods totaled US$411.4 million for a gain of 34.2 per cent. Textiles held first place at US$176.4 million. Canned foods were up to US$63 million. Mushrooms and tangerines showed gains and asparagus and pineapple were down.
Retail centers will be opened in Taipei to promote the sale of Korean goods and in Seoul to promote Taiwan goods.
Export of marble products to Australia will be increased under a contract signed by A.J. Chown Holding Ltd. of Sydney and the Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen, a major producer and processor.
Plans for development of the auto industry and the export of parts are under study by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. New requirements call for the makers of autos to supply 60 per cent of their own parts, including engine blocks, cylinders and heads, pistons, connecting rods, crankshafts and principal springs.
A material shortage which has hampered the wig industry is expected to be overcome by March. Wig exports have been climbing despite the shortage. Export volume was US$1,615,000 in the first eight months of 1970, more than in all of last year.
To protect vanishing wildlife, a ban has been clamped on export of 27 varieties of stuffed birds and animals. Included are Mikado pheasants, gray eagles, Sika deer, Formosan leopards, otters, weasels, flying foxes and civets.
Government plans to protect new industries with tariff walls rather than prohibition of imports, Minister of Economic Affairs Y. S. Sun told the Legislative Yuan. However, MOEA also said that industries which were producing enough for domestic supply could ask for a ban on imports.
A study by the Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development said Taiwan needs allocation of 600 hectares of land annually for industrial purposes. The factories using the land will provide 171,000 new jobs each year.
Government awarded citations and plaques to 245 exporters for 1969 performances. Five companies showed volume of more than US$10 million, 17 had more than US$5 million and 173 had sales of between US$1 and US$5 million.
A prize of US$250 is offered by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to mark the 60th anniversary of the Republic of China next year. The theme must include free China's basic principles and progress under Dr. Sun Yat-sen and President Chiang Kai-shek.
Arvin (Taiwan) Ltd. opened its electrical apparatus plant at Neili near Taipei. The parent company is Arvin Industries Inc. of Columbus, Indiana.
Another new plant at Neili is that of the China Zipper Fasteners Corporation. Production of nylon zippers will be 72 million in the first year, 144 million in the second and 216 million in the third.
General Instrument of Taiwan Ltd., the first foreigner investor in the electronics field, may increase its investment by about US$5 million, raising the total to US$20 million.
Taipower will build a US$20 million super high tension line between Kinshan and Panchiao, a distance of 20 miles. This will feed power produced at two projected nuclear plants into the island's power grid and terminate seasonal shortages.
Communications Minister C.C. Chang said volume of ship cargoes was 13 million tons in the first nine months of 1970, an increase of nearly 30 per cent. Air freight totaled 33,232 tons, an increase of 46 per cent. Rail cargo was down slightly and highway freight up by more than 14 per cent.
Launched at Keelung was the 98,700-ton tanker Yu Tsao, the largest vessel ever built in a Chinese yard. Constructor was the Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation, which will build at least two sister vessels for the Chinese Petroleum Corporation. The second is already under construction.
TSC, which has construction capacity of 170,000 tons of shipping a year and 1,800 workers, has enough orders to keep busy for the next three years.
Expansion projects at Kaohsiung and Keelung harbors will be completed by the end of 1972. A second entrance to Kaohsiung harbor will be opened in 1975.
Taiwan got its first marine weather station at Tso-ying on the southwest coast. There are four broadcasts in English daily on a frequency of 8113 kilo-cycles.
Plans for the new Taipei airport at Taoyuan are expected to be ready by next March. Construction is slated to start in 1971 and be completed by 1975.
Wellington Y. Tsao, director of international technical cooperation of the Council for International Economic Cooperation and development, was named chairman of the Tourism Council of the Ministry of Communications. He succeeds Wang Chang-ching, who held the post concurrently with his position as vice minister of communications. The Tourism Council is expected to be the government's principal tourist agency and eventually to incorporate several groups of national, provincial and city level.
Recent tourism funding includes more than US$2 million in loans from the government's China Tourism Development Corporation for hotels and nearly US$1 million from the Provincial Government for the development of Kenting Park at the island's southern tip. Plans were announced for organization of the Overseas Chinese Tourism Enterprise Ltd. to build hotels in Taipei and Tokyo and operate tourism transportation services. Capital will be raised from the sale of 200,000 shares of stock with par value of US$25 per share.
Plans of the Provincial Government call for the expenditure of US$3.5 million on development of Shihmen Dam and Reservoir into a tourism center. Water sports will be a highlight. Hotels and entertainment facilities will be constructed. Investors will include overseas Chinese.
Twenty-four cars for the Taiwan Railway Administration's Chu Kuang Express runs arrived and another 21 are expected before the end of the year. This will give TRA 51 Chu Kuang cars and permit additional daily service to Kaohsiung, Changhua and Suao. Computers will be used in selling reserved seat tickets on TRA trains next year. The service will be offered at 35 stations.
For Chinese nationals, an exit and entry center has been established under the Taiwan Garrison Command to make processing quicker and more convenient. All government agencies with a voice in exit and entry matters are represented. Processing of the average application will require two weeks.
Government hopes to attract more international conferences during the 1970s. Construction of larger hotels will give impetus to the movement. Thirty-seven such meetings have been held in Taiwan during the last three years.
Prospecting for oil is under way in five reserved offshore petroleum areas of the East China Sea. The Chinese Petroleum Corporation is cooperating with four American oil companies: AMOCO, Gulf Oil, Oceanic Exploration and Clinton International. One of the areas is in the vicinity of the Taio Yu Tai Islands (Senkakus), to which the Japanese have laid claim.
A six-man screening committee is examining bids on the first segment of the North-South Expressway. Bidders are Chinese, Japanese, American, South Korean, Filipino and French.
Faced with a mounting surplus of rice, the government is contemplating a policy of encouraging the transfer of paddy to other crops. The current surplus is estimated at 300,000 metric tons and storage space has been exhausted. The year's first crop of rice totaled 1,280,000 metric tons and the second crop is expected to yield 1.3 million tons.
Some stored rice may be mixed with other animal feeds to avert large-scale spoilage. Most of the rice piled up in Japan is said to be no longer fit for human consumption.
A comprehensive census of agriculture and fisheries will be undertaken in Taiwan and the offshore islands in January.
For agriculture, the census will include population, employment, land, crops, livestock and poultry, labor, sidelines, fertilizer, pesticides, tools, equipment and housing.
Fisheries data will involve population, employment, boats, gear and other equipment, production value and living conditions.
To speed the purchase of farm machinery, the Provincial Government will offer subsidies of US$125.
Newly organized is the China Agricultural Mechanization Association with 80 group and 1,100 individual members.
The Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction has made funds available for the experimental farming of two large areas with heavy machinery. One of 100 hectares will be paddy and the other of the same size will be for dry land crops. Tractors of 70 or more horsepower will be used along with planters, cultivators and combines. Power tillers in use on Taiwan farms are of less than 20 horsepower.
Farmers will be urged to grow more corn, soybeans and other feed grains to reduce imports. In 1969, Taiwan produced less than 50,000 metric tons of corn while importing 400,000 m/t.
Twelve extension workers from Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and South Vietnam attended a training course sponsored by the Asian and Pacific Council Food and Fertilizer Technology Center. Speakers at the opening session were Minister of Economic Affairs Y.S. Sun, Australian Ambassador Hugh A. Dunn and H.P. Chu, director of the center.
The Taiwan Fertilizer Company announced plans to cooperate with the Chinese Petroleum Corporation and others in diversifying production and cutting costs. TFC will develop compound fertilizers for such high-profit crops as bananas and watermelons.
A new TFC plant at Hsinchu uses natural gas to make urea and ammonium sulphate and has raised output from 500,000 to a million metric tons annually. From 1962 to 1969, the company exported 331,447 tons of fertilizer to Southeast Asia for earnings of more than US$36 million. Between 1947 and 1968, the use of fertilizer on Taiwan farms rose from 115 to 908 kilograms per hectare.
Before 1963, Taiwan fertilizer prices were among the highest in the world. Since then the urea price has been reduced from NT$6,300 to NT$3,800 per metric ton and the price of ammonium sulphate from NT$2,800 to NT$2,300 per ton. TFC's seven plants are operating at an annual deficit of about US$5 million.
Representatives of various government agencies met at the call of the Ministry of Economic Affairs to study ways of modernizing the construction of housing. Conferees agreed that planning and materials must be standardized, that construction methods must be modernized and that a long-term plan of housing construction must be adopted so that architects and contractors can work more constructively.
The Taiwan Provincial Government built 88,144 housing units in the decade ended last June 30. Currently under way are projects to build 4,000 units for those displaced by slum clearance programs, 2,000 for the underprivileged, 4,000 for public functionaries and 4,800 for low-income families. Construction of more than 1,400 units will begin before the end of the year in Keelung, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung.
A division of urban development may be established by the Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development to provide a single tent for agencies directing city construction and reconstruction. Already operating are the Northern Regional Reconstruction Committee under the Executive Yuan and the Urban Development Ad Hoc Group under CIECD.
The Provincial Government is trying out an environmental clean-up plan in Kaohsiung and Ilan counties. Targets are air and water pollution. Counties will establish checkpoints and center their activities in a limited number of communities.
Red tape haters got a break when the government reduced occasions calling for presentation of a copy of the domicile registration certificate from 199 to 87. Further reductions are planned.
Taiwan’s population was 14,576,784, including 1,759,520 in Taipei but excluding some 550,000 in the armed forces. September births totaled 34,108 and there were 5,575 deaths. Population of Kaohsiung, the second largest city, has reached 819,000 and will pass the million mark by 1974.
A Provincial Government report said the number of Taiwan needy families had been cut from the 173,000 families and 1,013,000 individuals of 1966 to 84,000 families and 517,000 persons.
Automation will come to the Taipei main post office in December with the installation of automatic letter sorting equipment. The system has a capacity of 25,000 letters an hour and will do the work of 180 clerks. An eight-story building is planned at the Taipei post office site to handle additional equipment. Construction will begin the end of this year and be completed in a year.
Postal saving coupons are now sold by Taiwan post offices in denominations of US$7.50, US$12.50 and US$25. They mature in one, two or three years.
Modernization of weather and earthquake reporting by the Taiwan Weather Bureau is under way. Systems are being reorganized and charts improved. To be programmed for computers are 30 variables, including wind speed and direction, minimum, maximum and average temperatures, and data on rainfall, typhoons and earthquakes.
Taiwan's Highway Bureau will buy 1,340 buses in the next six years. At the end of that period, it will have 2,416 buses in service.
Nearing completion at Taoyuan west of Taipei is a US$1.5 million automated abattoir with a capacity of 15,000 hogs daily. The investor, Chow Shen, an overseas Chinese from the United States, expects to export two-thirds of the output.
Traffic accidents took a toll of 877 lives and injured 6,463 in the first six months of 1970. Property damage was estimated at close to US$1 million. Compared with the same period in 1969, the number of accidents was reduced from 5,099 to 4,788 but the number of dead rose from 838. Reckless driving was blamed for 87.6 per cent of accidents.
In the last five years, rail accidents have taken a toll of 1,152 killed and 2,771 injured. Most accidents were at crossings and 12.4 per cent were suicides.
Taiwan's aborigines have a sharply increased standard of living, the Provincial Government reported. Family income has risen to more than US$600 a year. The aborigine population is about 140,000 on 228,000 hectares of land.
Reservations number 30 and are located in 12 of Taiwan's 16 counties. Another 100,000 members of the nine tribes have moved from reservations to villages on the plains or have been absorbed in the general population.
Work continues on Taipei's drainage system. Most flooding will be eliminated by the end of a second four-year plan in 1974. A longer-range plan dividing the city into 16 drainage districts is expected lo eliminate flooding for good.
To increase the supply of domestic water, the city plans a dam and reservoir on the upper reaches of the Hsintien River. Water production will be increased by from 200,000 to 250,000 cubic meters daily by the end of this year. However, wells producing 120,000 cubic meters must be taken out of production as soon as possible to stop Taipei's high rate of subsidence.
More than US$21 million has been earmarked for Taipei road construction in 1971. North-south movement of traffic will be speeded up with the widening of principal thoroughfares.
Park improvement will be a major Taipei goal of the 1970s. Two new parks were opened recently and Taipei (also called New) Park improved. The city's park area is nearly 103,000 square meters in 12 plots.
With only 2,228 fire hydrants and a number of those inoperable because of damage or insufficient water pressure, Taipei has a serious firefighting problem. Fire engines reached a recent blaze in five minutes but a wooden structure of the Ministry of Economic Affairs burned down because there was no hydrant.
Efforts are being made to install hydrants and raise water pressure. Meanwhile, tankers and pumpers will be purchased. Location of water tanks on the roofs of tall buildings has been recommended by the city fire chief.
Taipei has nearly 51,000 business establishments with capital of more than US$132 million. This is 65 per cent of the businesses in Taiwan. The total has increased nearly five times in the last three years. Most establishments are engaged in retail trade.
Telephones in the city totaled 238,311 at the end of September, an increase of 23.23 per cent in a year. Since January, the time between application and installation has been reduced from two weeks to one.
Taipei's musical garbage trucks are coming by night in several districts and it is planned to convert all collections to the evening hours. Street sweeping will be from 4 to 8 in the morning. Garbage collection is not a small problem. The daily haul is 20,000 tons.
City plans call for the dismantling of 12,000 squatters' shacks by 1974 and the elimination of shantytowns. Progress is considerable. In April, 1964, the count of Taipei's illegal construction was 52,887 buildings. Most were occupied by mainland refugees. Slum clearance has had to be a matter of the heart as well as the city's appearance.
Taipei has several new underpasses to take pedestrians safely across busy streets. In time to come it may have an underground link between Yangmingshan in the north and Mucha in the south. Such a project would provide an air raid shelter for all the people of the city and would shorten the cross-town trip from an hour to a matter of minutes.
Newly opened are six shops selling graded pork in plastic bags: The project of the Vocational. Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen and the Municipal Bureau of Reconstruction eventually may replace many of the city's open-air, un-refrigerated meat stalls.
The Taipei theater district will be out of bounds to automobiles from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays to reduce congestion. Many shops and restaurants are located in this area, bounded by Hankow Street in the north, Kangting Road in the west, Neichiang Street in the south and Chunghua Road in the east.
Priority will be given to seven industries by the City Bureau of Reconstruction. They are toys, wigs, furniture, pottery, plastics, optics and processed chemicals.
Whether you are first and want to stay there or are second and want to be first, car rental bas not been a thriving business in Taipei. Now under study is a joint venture of Taiwan and foreign interests that would put imported cars on the highway for tourists at rates similar to those in the United States.
Another automotive first is likely to be air-conditioned taxis by the summer of 1971. A higher fare would be charged for a cool ride.
President Chiang Kai-shek told the Kuomintcing (Nationalist Party) that the cultivation of promising young talent is the starting point for party reform and the recovery of the Chinese mainland.
The chief executive sent a message to the eighth assembly of the KMT Provincial Headquarters, which drew attendance of 238 party workers.
Statistics released by CIECD showed spectacular increases in school enrollment in the 10-year period ended in 1968. Junior normal colleges were up by 5,248 per cent and five-year junior colleges by 3,409 per cent. Other gains: two and three-year junior colleges, 502 per cent; graduate schools, 272 per cent; colleges and universities, 215 per cent; junior middle schools, 247 per cent; and senior middle schools (high schools), 181.5 per cent. Primary school attendance was up 34.1 per cent.
Supplementary schools are doing well, too. These are educational institutions originally intended to help students get into a college or university but which have come to be the equivalents of at least a junior college. The count for Taipei alone is 267 such registered schools. Of those which are supposed to prepare the student to pass the joint examination for entry into institutions of higher learning, some have enrollment of 5,000 students.
Fees are much higher than in ordinary schools. Consequently, supplementary schools can pay for top teachers from colleges, universities and senior high schools. A professor may make two or three times as much from his supplementary school moonlighting as from teaching at the institution to which he is formally accredited. Such is the thirst for education in free China.
The Taiwan Education Reconstruction Foundation announced allocation of nearly US$300,000 to 43 middle schools to carry out reconstruction programs. Funds will be used to build workshops, facility dormitories, gymnasiums, auditoriums and student activity centers.
Promotion of teacher well-being is the chore of the Provincial Teachers' Welfare Fund, which has spent nearly US$5.5 million in the last decade. Subsidies and loans are extended to teachers to build houses and educate their own children. Hostels have been constructed and tours financed.
Newly opened in the suburbs of Taipei is the China Evangelical Seminary, a graduate school of theology supported by 14 churches or church bodies: Campus Evangelical Fellowship, Free Methodist, Taiwan Friends Church, Conservative Baptist, Oriental Missionary Society, Church of the Nazarene, Overseas Missionary Fellowship, Evangelical Covenant Church, Chinese Missions Overseas, Worldwide Evangelization Crusade, Chinese Campus Crusades for Christ, Taiwan Holiness Church, Independent Mandarin Churches and Overseas Crusades.
Hospital beds in Taiwan Province (not including Taipei) will be trebled to nearly 13,000 in the next five years. The cost will be US$10 million.
Even remote areas are covered under the medical insurance program for government employees. Forty-eight areas classified as "far out" include Green Island, Orchid Island and Wufen. Coverage is extended to more than 276,000 persons. Contracts for care have 'been signed with 54 public and private hospitals and clinics.
Taiwan's National Tuberculosis Association undertook its annual fall and winter funds campaign with a report of steady gains but of continuing need for prevention and treatment. Few school children are infected and the rate for teachers is down from 5 per cent to 0.9 per cent. However, the patient count remains at 290,000, of which 46,000 are classified as active. Only 20,000 are receiving treatment. Funds are needed to assure treatment for the other 26,000 active cases.
Dr. Yu Tien-hsiang, superintendent of the Loh Sheng Leprosarium, urged an island-wide campaign to persuade the public that leprosy is curable in 90 per cent of cases. He said Taiwan has about 10,000 unregistered lepers. La Sheng received a mobile treatment unit from the West German Leprosy Association.
A proposed eugenics law drafted by the Ministry of Interior provides that couples may request a physical examination before marriage. The examination would not, however, be compulsory. Abortion would be permitted in the case of malignancy, mental disease or rape.
Newly opened in Kaohsiung is the Lifeline Center to help those who are troubled and contemplating suicide. Eight professionals in medicine, human relations, religion, etc., are acting as consultants. Telephone numbers are 239595 and 239596. A similar operation in Taipei has saved hundreds of lives.
More than 200 midwife stations have been established in the Taiwan countryside since 1966 in a program jointly sponsored by the Provincial Government and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. More than 40,000 babies have been delivered. The licensed midwives also help with family planning.
Beginning this fall, smallpox and BCG inoculations are required for children in the first year and in the first grade, the Taipei city Health Bureau announced. The inoculations are free at public health centers.
Three years of investigation by the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 of Taipei led to discovery that a parasite from fish is the cause of an intestinal ailment that has claimed the lives of more than 100 persons since 1967. The research was carried out in northern Luzon, Philippines, where some 1,500 persons have been infected.
A farm demonstration team of four specialists and three rice specialists will be sent to Guyana under a new technical cooperation agreement. Rice will be grown and farmer association organization taught. Under a supplement to the accord with Ecuador, an eight-man rice growing team will be sent to that country.
A shipment of US$50,000 worth of medicines went to Cambodia for the relief of war refugees.
Wang Chi-wu, deputy secretary-general of the National Science Council, said the United States will cooperate with the ROC in typhoon, earthquake and herb medicine research. He met with leaders of the National Science Foundation on a trip to the United States.
Fishery talks with the Republic of Vietnam are nearing a successful conclusion. The Republic of China is expected to provide capital, equipment and technical assistance for the development of Vietnamese fishery. Free Chinese boats are expected to base more of their South China Sea operations on Vietnamese ports.
Air Force General Louie Yen-chun, deputy chief of the general staff, visited South Vietnam for five days at the invitation of the Vietnamese Defense Department. He inspected both Vietnamese and American military installations in frontline areas.
Col. Mao Cheng, acting spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, said a Chinese Communist submarine build-up threatens the Republic of China and other free Asian countries. He said recent Taiwan Straits joint operations of Sino-American forces were routine.
Regulations to be promulgated by the Executive Yuan give the Ministry of National Defense power to requisition military supplies and war materials in time of general mobilization. Compensation will be given. Mobilization is not currently in effect in the province of Taiwan.
Two Chinese military men received U.S. decoradons for service in South Vietnam. Col. Chao Pen-li was chief of staff, Republic of China Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, and Lt. Col. Chu Hua was liaison officer of the same command. Col. Chao received the Bronze Medal and Col. Chu the Commendation Medal from Maj. Gen. Livingston N. Taylor, chief of the American Military Assistance Advisory Group to the Republic of China.
Conclusions of a four-day manpower seminar sponsored by the Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development called for increase in national income and full employment. A goal of 1.8 per cent was set for population increase.
Automation of the industry and mechanization of agriculture will be required within the next few years, the conferees said. They urged establishment of a bureau of vocational training to meet the manpower needs of a modern state.
Prepared by the Executive Yuan for promulgation when needed was a manpower mobilization program. There are classifications for skilled and unskilled manpower. Individuals could be drafted for service for periods of from a month to two years.
Ho Shan, 40, a former Chinese Communist judicial official who recently reached freedom in Taiwan, told a press conference that the Peiping regime is losing control of the mainland. He said law enforcement organizations were largely destroyed during the "cultural revolution."
A Paiyi tribesman from Lantsang county in Yunnan province, Ho joined the Communist Party in 1956 and held posts in several judicial organizations. He said judicial power has been given to the "revolutionary committees," which have the power to arrest and execute without due process of law. He said many law enforcement and judicial cadres are struggling against the Maoists.
Miss Heh Teh-hui, 18, a former "Red Guard" who was brought up in Hongkong and then went to Canton, told of the mainland execution of young people. She swam to freedom in Hongkong in September and hopes to study medicine in Taiwan.
The Free China Relief Association has assisted 6,741,348 persons fleeing the Chinese mainland since its establishment in 1954. Of these, 154,785 have been resettled in Taiwan, said Ku Cheng-kang, the president of the association.
Twenty-five delegates from 11 countries who attended anti-Communist meetings in Japan paid a visit to the offshore island of Kinmen (Quemoy) and released psychological warfare balloons to the mainland.
Taipei will host the Pacific and Far East championship playoff of the Little League next year. No date has yet been set. Participants are expected to be the Republics of China and Korea, Japan, Philippines, Guam and the Marshall Islands. The winner will go into the World Series at Williamsport, Pa.
More than 14,000 Boy and Girl Scouts participated in the Fourth National Jamboree in northern Taiwan. Details will be found in the Picture Story of this issue.
With Henry Kung, the general manager of the Central Motion Picture Corporation, as chairman, a committee was named to make preparations for the 17th Asian Film Festival in Taipei next June.
Kinma (Golden Horse) awards were presented by the Cultural Bureau of the Ministry of Education to top Mandarin movies and performers of 1969-70. Miss Kuei Ya-lei, who won the best actress award at this year's Asian Film Festival, duplicated that victory in the Mandarin contest for her performance in the Central Motion Picture Corporation's "Home Sweet Home."
Ko Hsiang-ting took his second Kinma (he also won in 1965) for the best performance by an actor in "The Evergreen Mountain" from the Wang Sheng Movie Company. "Home Sweet Home" was chosen the best feature and Chang Tseng-tse took directing honors with "From the Highway," a Cathay Organization production.
Movie producers are seeking overseas markets as a result of the cinema doldrums in Taiwan. Ten Mandarin films were sent to the United States and a color feature to Australia.
Dr. Chen Chi-lu of National Taiwan University, giving a lecture on the family system of Taiwan, said woman's position has been greatly elevated. The patriarchal pattern has been decentralized. Schools have taken over the education function of the family.
Bronze wares arc among the oldest and most prized holdings of the National Palace Museum. Plans are being made for an international symposium on bronzes at the museum in December of 1971. More than 40 experts, collectors and connoisseurs are expected to attend. Papers will be presented. A large exhibition from the museum's 4,000 bronzes will be on view.
The National Palace Museum is planning an office to improve and enlarge the science of conserving and restoring artifacts. Assistance is being provided by Dr. H.J. Plenderleith, director of the International Center for the Study and Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property.
Newly published by Australian Ambassador Hugh A. Dunn, a student of Chinese language and culture, is Ts'ao Chih-The Life of a Princely Chinese Poet. The English translations of Ts'ao Chih's poems are Dunn's. The poet lived from 192 to 232 A.D.
Chang Yuan-yuan was crowned 64th Tien Shih (Heavenly Instructor) of the Taoist faith at Tainan in southern Taiwan. Officiating was 84-year-old elder Chen Wen. It was the first such ceremony ever held in Taiwan.
The end of a 20-year-old radio series came with a reception and citation for H.P. Tseng, chairman of the Central News Agency and professor of journalism at National Chengchi University. The 15-minute Friday commentaries went on the air from the Broadcasting Corporation of China in 1950 and were re-broadcast by other Taiwan stations.
Of the 2.8 million words spoken during the course of Tan Tien Hsia Shih (Talking About World Affairs), some 1.9 million are being compiled for publication. At the reception given by the Cultural Bureau of the Ministry of Education, an English title finally was given the series: Today's World Shapes Tomorrow.
Professor Charles Clayton of Southern Illinois University, a visiting teacher at the National Chengchi University, said journalism is developing constructively in the Republic of China. He said increased advertising revenue will provide the funds to improve all news media. He urged the modernization of advertising agencies and the establishment of marketing services.
The China Times marked its 20th anniversary and growth from a mimeographed sheet to a circulation of 323,000 daily. A new six-story building was opened, the first in Taiwan specially built for a newspaper. The Times was the first in the Chinese language to install photo-offset equipment and color.
Awards of the Federation of Overseas Chinese Association went to Cheng Kuo-chiang of Canada and Chang Tien-chien of the United States in liberal arts, Chuang Tse-ming of Manila· and Ten Kuo-hi of Saigon in journalism, and Shih Yi-an of Harvard Medical College in science.
The Chinese military wound up a two-year program to acquaint civilians with the armed forces. Col. Liu Chin-huan headed the Cultural Service Corps program, which included illustrated lectures, exhibition of books and documents, folk dancing and singing, medical treatment and recreation.
Construction will begin soon on the US$9.7 million Chinese Village at Pacific World in Anaheim, Calif. All facets of industrial, commercial and cultural life of the Republic of China will be represented at the village. The location is adjacent to Anaheim Stadium, home of a major league baseball team, and Disneyland.