Transforming Taiwan into a hi-tech global manufacturing center
   Taiwan's transformation to a dynamic capitalist economy has been studied and marveled by experts all over the world because of its overwhelming success. Formerly relying on industrial manufacturing and a wide assortment of agricultural goods, Taiwan's government and business leaders took a bold step more than twenty years ago by deciding to follow the lead of Silicon Valley and establishing a land development specializing in the manufacturing and research and development of hi-tech industries. Thus, came forth Taiwan's first science-based industrial park, the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP), a 632 hectare facility sprawled across the northern county and city of Hsinchu, which now accommodates more than 300 companies seeking the latest technological breakthroughs in hi-tech areas such as integrated circuits, computers and peripherals, telecommunications, optoelectronics, precision machinery and biotechnology. The spectacular success of the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park not only fueled Taiwan's rise as one of the new Asian economic "tigers" in the late 1980s, but soon thereafter other types of technological industrial parks were being planned and developed all over the island, and it became apparent that a number of Taiwan's longstanding industries would have to make room for a new family of hi-technology and information age industries.
Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park
Location:
632 hectares over both Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County in northern Taiwan. Also, the newly developed 138 hectare Chunan Base in Miaoli County, south of Hsinchu.
Facilities:
Standard plants and factories, clinic, post office, bank, warehouses, truck depots, residential area with housing complexes, sports and recreation facilities, restaurants, bookstore, artificial lake, mini shopping center and experimental schools.
Industrial Development:
Over 335 companies (282 local and 53 foreign) involved with integrated circuits, computers and peripherals, telecommunications, optoelectronics, precision machinery and biotechnology.
Southern Taiwan Science-based Industrial Park
Location:
638 hectares over Tainan County in southern Taiwan.
Infrastructures:
Site grading, road system, flood control, drainage system, water supply system (with a 3,000 tons elevated storage tank), wastewater recycling, sewage treatment plant (Design capacity Q = 90,000 CMD), waste disposal, bridges, lift station and flood control pump station, etc.
  The Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park was first established in 1980, and under its varying stages of development, has gradually expanded its facilities throughout Hsinchu and its nearby base site areas. With an extensive infrastructure providing its own water and power supply, telecommunications, convenient access to national freeways, the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and high speed rail, as well as close proximity to national universities and research institutes, the HSIP provides the most ideal conditions and comfortable environment for its dwellers with a complete combination of office and living facilities, communities, activity centers, recreational parks and basic services. Right from the start, CECI has been involved with the planning, design and construction supervision of this land development project by ensuring that all of the public facilities, including road systems, water supply systems, drainage systems, sewage and wastewater collection and treatment systems and landscaping are properly carried out according to the site demands and project requirements. Owing to the project's great success, CECI has since carried out the planning, design and construction supervision of the subsequent Southern Taiwan Science-based Industrial Park in the southern Taiwan county of Tainan (beginning in 1995), and the recently awarded Central Taiwan Science-based Industrial Park in the central Taiwan county of Taichung. With the accumulated knowledge and experiences gained from these large-scale hi-tech land development projects, CECI continues to play its part in allowing Taiwan fulfill its vision of becoming a global manufacturing and R&D center for the highly competitive and cutting edge market of high technology products.

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