-This year will bring "difficulties, dangers and pain" for the Republic of China. These will test and try the free Chinese people but will be overcome.
-Tendencies toward appeasement have not been able to stamp out the forces of righteousness and justice.
-Faith in the National Revolution remains unshaken. The Republic of China will defeat the Communists and regain the mainland.
President Chiang said: "Some countries of today are myopic and lured by immediate advantage to the point of irrationality and the ignoring of righteousness. These nations talk of peace but actually are engaging in actions which destroy peace. Should we be angered, discouraged or even intimidated by these nations and thereby depart from our faith and lose our temper, this would be tantamount to failure ...
"With regard to the future of our nation and people, we have already established the principle that we ourselves shall choose whether to take action or refrain from it. This means that the decision of action or nonaction depends on our own judgment, which will be exercised in the spirit of independence and self-determination. Expressed simply, our principle is that:
"Recovery of the Chinese mainland is our prime objective and unceasing task. We can never set this aside in favor of lesser problems. Should we commit such a mistake, we would fall into the Maoist trap and give the Maoists opportunity to escape their inevitable destiny. All the people of this nation must have the singleminded determination to fight through from the beginning to the end and to fight to the death, but always for the total goal and not for a fragment thereof."
The nation's leader said that once the mainland is recovered, all problems of will be easily solved. "We do not mind being the only people who still have faith in anti-Communism and who still have the courage to persist in the struggle against Communism and for the cause of freedom and justice. This means that in our hands hangs not only the destiny of the nation, but the security or the destruction of all humankind . . . In this time of crisis, we shall achieve final success and victory despite treachery, danger and difficulty."
The full text of President Chiang's remarks, which were made to a meeting of the National Security Council, will be found in the Documents section of this issue.
Ambassador James C. H. Shen made his first public address since assuming his post in May. He told the National Press Club that there is no chance of a political detente between and .
"In the eyes of the Republic of China," he said, "the Communists are a rebel regime. We are realistic. We have learned through the school of hard knocks that to negotiate with the Communists is like trying to get a tiger to give up its skin. It will not give up its skin willingly. We negotiated with the Communists during the Second World War. What we got needs no further comment."
Admission of to the United Nations would be a travesty of the U.N.'s dedication to peace, he said. The peace role of the U.N. has already suffered bruising blows, he continued, and the organization might not be able to withstand those which the Chinese Communists hope to deliver.
Peace on 's terms is not worth having, the ambassador declared, and the prospect of lucrative trade with the Chinese Communist-held mainland is a delusion.
Diplomatic relations between Peiping and are not inevitable, Ambassador Shen said. "You and I know that nothing is inevitable until faint-hearted men, weary of struggle, decide to give up. The brave can find many alternatives to the proposed course of placation."
Turning to ping pong diplomacy and Chou En-lai, Ambassador Shen said:
"We have learned, at a great cost, the worthlessness of his promises. We have experienced the fanatical ruthlessness with which he pursues his goals. We know that even behind Chou En-lai's much publicized smiles lurks the unaltering intent to trap the free world, and especially the , into letting down its guard."
"Those who cry 'Peace, Peace' may not really mean it," he said. "Every would-be conqueror has always justified his crimes against humanity by the plea that he was seeking peace. What the Communists do not disclose is that the only peace in which they are interested is a peace of world submission to Communist totalitarianism. "
The new envoy to expressed confidence that the will stand beside the Republic of China. "I cannot believe that the United States will allow itself to be deceived by the false image which Mao Tse-tung is now expediently holding up to the world," he said. "The future of and of the whole free world depends upon your decision. I know you will not fail us."
Members of the Control Yuan adopted a resolution urging the free world to uphold the justice and dignity of the United Nations by continuing to bar the Chinese Communists.
The resolution said in part:
"One of the important principles of the U.N. Charter is to maintain peace and stop aggression. Under no circumstances should this principle be discarded. The government of the Republic of China is a faithful member of the United Nations.
"The regime is a rebel group which rules the mainland by force. The continuous flight of mainland people is a proof that the regime is deserted by the people. Moreover, the regime is in fact outwardly strong and inwardly weak. It has launched external aggression and has engaged in subversion and infiltration in Asia and . It has been condemned as an aggressor by the United Nations.
"Therefore, the admission of the regime into the United Nations would be tantamount to the surrender of the United Nations to an aggressor; and the price of appeasement would be another world holocaust."
A statement from the Legislative Yuan said that the entry of Peiping into the U.N. would speed the international organization toward the same fate as the .
More than 1,000 students of demonstrated peacefully in front of the and Japanese Embassies in to protest "imperialist aggression" against the Tiaoyutai (Senkaku) islets northeast of and southwest of the Ryukyus.
The students, who delivered letters of protest to both embassies, said the attempt to turn the Tiaoyutais over to along with the Ryukyus was reminiscent of . "The Chinese people will never forgive you," the Americans were told.
The message to said: "During the Second World War, Japanese militarists committed huge crimes against the Chinese people, yet we forgave you when you were in a most difficult situation.
"But now, in your transition from an economic power to a political power, you are taking the old path of aggression against the country which forgave you. We seriously warn the Japanese government that any plots of aggression against the Republic of China will be destroyed."
The demonstration was one of the largest held in in recent years.
The official position of the Republic of China was set forth by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as follows:
"In the course of recent years, the government of the Republic of China has never ceased to follow with the deepest concern the question of the status of the Ryukyu Islands and has on repeated occasions sought to bring to the attention of the governments of the states concerned its views on the merits of the question and its preoccupations particularly with reference to the related problem of security in the Asian and Pacific areas.
"Having learned that the United States government and the Japanese government are going to sign in the immediate future formal instruments for the transfer of the Ryukyu Islands, and together therewith, the Tiaoyutai islets, over which the Republic of China exercises its territorial sovereignty, the Chinese government considers it necessary to emphasize once again its position and make its views known to the world.
"First, as regards the . In 1943, the Principal Allied Powers, vis., , the and the , issued jointly the Cairo Declaration. In 1945, the Potsdam Declaration was issued which provides, inter alia, that the terms of Cairo Declaration shall be carried out and that Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of , , Kyushu, and such minor islands as the Principal Allies may determine. It was clear that the future status of the was reserved for subsequent determination by the Principal Allies.
Exports of the Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone, which is a sellout, will total about US$200 million this year (File photo)
"The Peace Treaty with , signed on September 8, 1951, at was based in substance upon the two above-mentioned Declarations. Article III of this Treaty contained explicit provisions concerning the legal status of the and the manner of its future disposition.
"The position of the Republic of China has consistently been that the final disposal of the should be determined by the Allied Powers concerned through consultations in accordance with the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Declaration. This position has been repeatedly made known to the government. As one of the Principal Allied Powers which were at war with , the Republic of China was and is naturally entitled to participate in any such consultations. The Republic of China must express its profound regret that the government, without going through the consultations referred to above, hastens to transfer the Ryukyu Islands to .
"Secondly, as regards the transfer of the Tiaoyutai islets. The Chinese government views with some consternation the announcement that the contemplated transfer of the Ryukyu Islands by the to will be accompanied by that of the Tiaoyutai islets.
"These islets belong to the Chinese and thus constitute part of the territory of the Republic of China. They are closely linked to the latter by reason of geographical location, geological structure, historical association and, above all, by reason of the long and continued use which the inhabitants of have made of these islets. Bound by the sacred duty to defend its national territory, the Chinese government will never relinquish any particle of its territorial sovereignty under any circumstances. Thus, it has continuously informed the United States government and the Japanese government that in terms of history, geography, usage and law, the Chinese government deems that these islets belong, without the slightest doubt, to the territorial sovereignty of China, and that they should be returned to the Republic of China upon the completion of the administration by the United States. The Chinese government considers it absolutely inadmissible that the administrative rights of these islets should now be transferred by the United States to Japan together with the Ryukyu Islands, and it deems that this transaction between the United States and Japan can in no way affect the claim of sovereignty on the part of the Republic of China over these islets.
"For the above reasons, the Chinese government must express strongest opposition to the impending transfer. It cherishes, however, the sincerest hope that the states concerned will respect 's sovereignty over these islets and will at once take reasonable and legal steps accordingly, in order to avert serious consequences in the Asian and Pacific area."
Following the signing of the U.S.-Japanese agreement on transfer of the Ryukyus, the National Assembly of the Republic of China said the inclusion of the Tiaoyutais was "null and void," because "Tiaoyutai is 's territory and has no connection with the whatsoever."
Tao Jung, a convener of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Legislative Yuan, suggested the government should consider taking military measures to protect the Tiaoyutais.
's Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi said the Ryukyu reversion document had settled the future of the Tiaoyutais. Ambassador Peng Men-chi conferred with Aichi but there was no announcement.
The adopted a hands-off policy. A State Department spokesman said the United Stales holds that return of administrative rights over the Tiaoyutais to Japan "can in no way prejudice the underlying claim of the Republic of China." He said the question of sovereignty should be worked out by the claimants.
said the would continue to use two gunnery ranges in the Tiaoyutais for training purposes. Dispute over the islands has been heightened by geological reports that underseas petroleum deposits may be found in the area.
Exporting manufacturers and companies will pass the 10,000 mark this year. The Board of Foreign Trade put the number at June. Nearly 6,000 were in . Most are small. Only 578 have capital of over US$250,000.
The Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone will surpass US$200 million in sales this year, up from 1970's US$109 million. KEPZ has more than 41,000 workers and every goal set in 1966 has been surpassed. Investment totals US$41 million compared with a target of only US$18 million.
The Nantze Export Processing Zone, also at , has already attracted 17 plants with investment of US$9,395,000. Six factories have begun production. The Taichung Export Processing Zone has drawn US$7.8 million in capital and 13 enterprises, of which 6 are in production.
Wu Mei-tsun, director of administration for KEPZ, said that the three zones will employ 100,000 and export US$400 million worth of goods annually from 400 factories four years from now. Wu said the government's investment has been returned many times over.
NEPZ and TEPZ will not be filled up for some time. The government has not yet announced plans for additional zones. Some opinion holds that investors are primarily interested in exploiting low-cost labor, that they contribute little to the economy and that in fact they compete with domestic industry for export markets. No official position has been taken.
Textile exports totaled US$479 million last year, a gain of 22 times over the US$21 million of 1960. Growth continued at a rate of 75 per cent in the January-April period, which showed exports of US$218 million.
Textile talks continued with the . At one point, there seemed to be agreement in principle, but the ROC side was waiting for the outcome of talks with Hongkong and . has agreed to voluntary curbs. The is by far the largest purchaser of textiles.
From the Board of Foreign Trade came a prediction that export growth will be stabilized at about 10.5 per cent annually by 1976. Last year's figure was 20.6 per cent. Heavy industry and petrochemicals are expected to make larger contributions. As of last year, industrial products made up 80 per cent of exports, and 80 per cent of these were from light industry.
The Indonesia Chamber of Commerce opened an office in . A products display center is planned. Trade between and was US$15 million in the first quarter of 1971 with the balance favoring the Republic of China by 2 to 1. Exports to reached US$34 million last year and may hit US$50 million in 1971.
Principal exports to are textiles, machinery, chemical products, plastics and petrochemicals. buys logs, iron and steel. The Chamber of Commerce office will grant visas and export cargo certificates.
Trade officials returning from Europe said commerce with could be materially enlarged. Although had imports of US$4,200 million in 1969, the volume of trade with the Republic of China was only US$1.1 million. makes up a big trade deficit with earnings from tourism.
Sponsored by the China External Trade Development Council, a trade mission will leave at the end of August for a tour of 14 African countries. Representatives will come from textile, plastics, chemical, fiber, plywood, metal, rubber and construction industries.
These are the countries to be visited: Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Dahomey, Gabon, Congo (Kinshasa), Central African Republic, Niger, Chad, Upper Volta, Nigeria and Ghana.
Industrial growth is expected to reach 16.7 per cent this year, slightly above last year's 16.3 per cent. William Wei, director of the Industrial Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, predicted gains of 19.4 per cent for public utilities, 17.5 per cent for manufacturing and 5.8 per cent for construction. A drop of 0.7 per cent is expected in mining.
Plans of the Industrial Bureau call for the establishment of 20 industrial estates with area of 2,600 hectares. Some already are under constructions, some will be under way soon and others arc in surveyor planning stages.
Ministries of Economic Affairs and National Defense are cooperating in the development of key industries which will serve both economic and defense purposes. These include steel, shipbuilding and machine tool industries. In defense terms, the Army makes light weapons and ammunition, artillery shells, communications and electrical devices and vehicles. The Navy hopes to build its own ships. The Air Force can make training planes and helicopters.
State enterprises will aim for increased management efficiency and higher levels of production in the 1972 fiscal year which began July 1. Specific goals include:
- Expansion of power generation, including work on 's first nuclear plant.
- Exploitation of petroleum and natural gas deposits.
- Development of shipbuilding, construction, petrochemical, aluminum, fertilizer and sugar processing industries.
- Increase in salt output with construction of a new plant.
- Development of postal and telephone services.
- Improved banking and money management.
Tatung Engineering Company, the largest private industry in , had sales of US$55 million last year. This was an increase of 53 per cent. The target for this year is US$75 million. Capital has been raised to US$20 million. Dividends of 11.2 per cent were paid last year.
has turned out a quarter of a million refrigerators in recent years. A new plant making refrigerators and washing machines has a capacity of 300,000 units annually. More than 2 million electric fans have been marketed since 1949. The company also makes air-conditioners, TV sets, radios and phonographs, household appliances, office furniture, motors and transformers of up to 70-kva.
Yue Loong, the largest auto maker in , has plans to invest US$67.5 million in low-priced cars. A new factory to be built in the next two years would turn out 100,000 autos annually from the third to the fifth year and 200,000 thereafter. Production would rise to 300,000 by 1982.
Development of the woolen textile industry has reached the point of 37 plants turning out 12,630 kilograms daily. For last year, exports were US$28 million and domestic sales were about US$13.5 million. Principal overseas buyers are , , , Southeast Asia, Europe and the . Spindles total 41,000.
Plants turning out knitted products total 92. Exports reached US$90 million last year and are expected to rise to US$120 million this year with orders from more than 50 countries. Products include stockinet cotton, sweaters, gloves and socks. The biggest weakness is the necessity of importing expensive machinery.
Sixty-two plants are making synthetic fibers and stretch yarns. Production was 85.5 million pounds in 1970. Materials for exports are imported; those for domestic sale come from the local petrochemical industry. Exports totaled US$22.5 million in 1970.
Cotton dyeing plants number 32 with capacity as follows: khaki, 4 million meters; bleached cotton, 38 million meters; colored cotton, 41 million meters; printed cotton, 150 million meters. The first plant wasn't opened until 1961.
has more than 200 toy manufacturers, most with lots of headaches. They have appealed to the government to help them modernize and develop international markets. Smallness and lack of managerial talent are big handicaps. Labor is cheap but raw materials are expensive and competition is ruinous. Suggestions include technical assistance, loans, vocational training, toy industry parks and lower PVC prices.
Coral is in trouble, too. Production has been running 111 tons a year valued at US$5 million. Last year's total was down to a little over 35 tons and a value of well under US$2 million. Capital for exploitation of a decreasing supply is lacking and the price has risen by 50 per cent.
Vice Premier Chiang Ching-kuo, who is concurrently director of the China Youth Corps, called for the close cooperation of young people and the government to accomplish the national purposes of the Republic of China. He was addressing some 100 leaders of this summer's camps for 276,000 young people. The voluntary vacationtime program will solicit the suggestions of youth for improvement of the nation and hold out assistance to students and working young people in the solution of their problems.
More than 2,000 students were graduated this year from , the biggest institution of higher education on . Dr. Yen Chen-hsing, the chancellor, presided and Miss Diana Ma of the Department of Foreign Languages was valedictorian.
wages are up and hours are down in manufacturing. The Taiwan Provincial Labor Force Survey and Research Institute put the average wage at NT$1,926 for 220 h9urs work a month. Wages were up NT$181 and hours were down by 12 compared with 1970.
Pay was highest in public utilities with an average of NT$2,989 for 213 hours. The gain was NT$ wages and a cut of hours. The comparable periods were January of 1970 and 1971.
As of last January, manufacturing industry employed 858,011 workers. The breakdown was textiles, foodstuffs, chemicals, electrical appliances and machinery, nonmetallic industries and utilities. There was a shortage of 13,532 skilled workers, 4,419 of them in textiles.
Discussion of an Executive Yuan (Cabinet) plan for a new commission on vocational guidance began in the Legislative Yuan. The new organization would be a merger of the Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen, the Commission for Youth Guidance and Assistance and the Labor Affairs Department of the Interior Ministry.
Some lawmakers suggested the proposed body would not have sufficient power and urged that a ministry be constituted rather than a commission. Others wondered whether the three organizations could be combined into a smooth-functioning commission. According to the Executive Yuan, the establishment of a ministry would be too expensive.
Generation of electricity by the Taiwan Power Company will be more than doubled in the next five years. The goal is at least 6 million kilowatts of capacity by the end of 1976, compared with 2.7 million at present. Two nuclear generators at Chinshan will provide 636,000 kilowatts of the increase. US$168 million of the US$292 million cost of the nuclear plants will come from the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
Biggest producer in will be the Talin thermal plant near with five generators and 1,850,000 kw output at the end of 1976. An additional generator is slated for Linkou near , raising output to 650,000 kw. Hydroelectric capacity will be increased by 414,000 kw.
Dr. M. Liebrucks, a West German expert, predicts a coal shortage by 1980 as the result of demand for energy. He said energy consumption will reach the equivalent of 40 million tons of coal annually by the end of this decade. has coal reserves of 235 million tons but production of only 5 million tons a year.
China Youth Corps has a big summer vacation program (File photo)
The Taiwan Railway Administration signed a World Bank loan agreement for US$15 million for various improvement projects. This raised the total of World Bank loans for TRA to US$81.5 million in chunks of US$17.5 million, US$17.8 million, US$13.2 million and US$15 million.
The latest loan is for 15 years and will finance laying of heavier track between Keelung and Changhua, a distance of 281 kilometers; purchase of 130 freight cars and loading equipment for container cargo; installation of signals at 80 grade crossings; research by the Transportation Planning Committee; and shipping equipment for Taipei and Kaohsiung terminals.
Banks of four European countries were reported interested in advancing US$65 million to TRA for electrification of the west coast mainline. The 10-year loan bearing interest of 6 per cent would come from , , and .
Chen Shu-hsi, director of TRA, said development requires electrification. He estimated savings of more than US$4 million a year on fuel, maintenance and wages after the changeover. In the last decade, Chen said, TRA passenger traffic rose 11 per cent and freight 6 per cent.
TRA completed a survey for widening the Hualien-Taitung line on the east coast from narrow to standard gauge and said work would be started before the end of the year. Cost is estimated at US$12.5 million. This line eventually will be linked with the west coast mainline but that will require construction of a north-bend section from Suao to Hualien. Expresses would make the run from to Taitung in six hours. The trip now takes more than 12 hours by train, bus and train - provided the road between Suao and Hualien has not been closed by a landslide.
The Retired Servicemen's Engineering Agency won the contract for a 7-kilometer stretch of the North-South Expressway over bidders from and as well as others from . The road involved is from Linkou to Nankan. RSEA also won - subject to screening - the contract to build 5 kilometers of the road south of . This contract includes a bridge of 1,000 meters. Construction of the freeway has been delayed by problems of land acquisition.
A second 100,000-ton tanker went down the Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation ways at . Mrs. K. T. Li, wife of the finance minister, sent a bottle of champagne crashing against the bow of the Shen Non. The vessel will be delivered to the Chinese Petroleum Corporation after trials.
Construction of TSBC's first supertanker took 13 months and the second only 10 months. A third will be delivered at the end of this year, after which TSBC will prepare to build 132,000-ton tankers, the largest possible in view of harbor limitations.
TSBC has built eight 28,000-ton bulk carriers, two 5,600-ton banana boats and two 12,500-ton high speed cargo liners. The keel of the first of a series of 54,000-ton bulk carriers will be laid this summer.
Interest rates were lowered by the Central Bank of and other banking institutions for the second time in six months. The CBC rediscount rate was reduced from 9.8 per cent to 9.25, loans with collateral from 10.5 to 10 and short-term loans from 12.5 to 12. Export loans stayed at 6.5. Bank loans were reduced to 12.5 per cent unsecured and 12 per cent secured. The discount rate was cut to 10.75.
Deposit rates were cut to 9.5 per cent for time deposits of two years or longer, 9.25 for one year, 8.25 for nine months, 7.75 for six months, 5.75 for three months, 4.5 for one month and 4.0 for demand and postal savings.
Savings rose to US$1,500 million last year, an increase of 25 per cent.
In keeping with values set by the International Monetary Fund, the worth of a New Taiwan Dollar (US2½cents) was set at 0.02221 grams of gold. An ounce of gold is worth NT$1,400, or US$35.
was expected to loan the Republic of US$22.5 million under a new US$250 million line of credit to succeed a US$150 million loan which is now virtually exhausted. All credits are used in yen for Japanese goods and services. Beneficiaries of the new loans will be the telephone system, enlargement of salt refining capacity and modernization of Taiwan Sugar Corporation equipment.
Tourism was slowing down a little but still showed a gain of 18.8 per cent for the first five months of 1971. That was better than anyone else in the was doing. Visitors numbered 227,890, of whom 123,541 were Japanese and 41,209 Americans. The Japanese showed an increase of 52.8 per cent, while the Americans declined 7.5 per cent. These changes presumably were connected with the recession and the fact that Expo 70 at is now only a memory. Overseas Chinese numbered 23,983 for an increase of 11.8 per cent.
got a new supreme headquarters of sightseeing, the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications. It took the place of the Tourism Council at the national level, the Taiwan Tourism Bureau at the provincial level and the preparatory office of a agency. Director is Wellington Tsao. The China Tourism Development Corporation, a financing agency, was moved from the Ministry of Communications to the Ministry of Finance.
Japanese tourists are largely males. To convince Japanese women that they should accompany their husbands or come on their own, the Tourism Bureau soon will invite a group of Japanese of the fair sex to "come and look us over."
Tourism earnings in 1970 were just under US$90 million to rank sixth among producers of foreign exchange. Only textiles, electrical apparatus, metal products, plywood and processed foods earned more.
Returning from was Dr. Wu Hui-ping, a specialist in acupuncture who treated Cambodian Premier Lon Nol for the partial paralysis which followed a stroke. Dr. Wu said Lon Nol had virtually recovered use of his paralyzed arm. The premier was treated at a armed forces hospital in after the stroke.
Dr. Wu received a medal and certificate of appreciation. He is the president of the Acupuncture Association of the Republic of China and made the trip under auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Asian flu differing slightly from the A-2 strain of recent years visited and then quickly receded. Most of those afflicted were children and infants. No fatalities were reported.
Reporting to the Interior Committee of the Legislative Yuan, Dr. Yen Chun-hui, director of the Bureau of Public Health of the Executive Yuan, said cancer and heart disease have become 's principal killers. He said preventive medicine centers are planned and that the cancer unit will give priority to the prevention of malignancies in women.
In 1952, the death rate from cancer was 30.74 per 100,000. By 1969, this had risen to 55.68. Heart disease was responsible for 5.1 per cent of deaths in 1952 and for 17.3 per cent in 1969.
Two national health centers will be established for research on cancer and circulatory diseases, Dr. Yen said.
Dr. Alton Ochsner, chairman of the cancer education committee of the American Bureau of Medical Aid to , came to to observe cancer education, prevention and treatment. He stressed the early discovery and treatment of the disease.
Incidence of hepatitis is on the increase in . Twenty per cent of patients in and were said to be suffering from the disease, which is at its height in the summer. Doctors said people from and seemed to be especially susceptible to hepatitis, which can lead to liver cancer.
Improved medical care in rural areas has brought about reduction of infant mortality. Midwives arc stationed at 207 maternity clinics throughout the island. Because many women are reluctant to report for prenatal examinations, home visits have been instituted.
Reporting results of a month's survey made last summer, Dr. Edwin Gold of the World Health Organization and suggested coordination of the maternity and child care programs. One benefit, he said, would be earlier diagnosis of cancer of the womb and breast.
Construction will begin soon on the US$8,750,000 sponsored by the China Society of Mutual Assistance for Health and Security headed by Paul Cardinal Yupin. Those contributing US$562.50 will be entitled to US$1,250 worth of care. The 10-story facility will have 612 beds. Location is at Neihu in suburban .
Officials of the Ministry of Education are studying the joint examination for college entrance to determine whether it should be kept or scrapped. The current system is a single examination annually. Students often cannot choose their majors. Only about a third of those taking the exam can be admitted to the participating schools.
If the 20-year-old joint test were scrapped, colleges and universities would give their own examinations and set their own standards for admission, subject to overall supervision of MOE.
Some 3,500 graduate students attending colleges and universities will return home for summer vacations. At least 15 groups were expected in June, July and August.
Gasoline prices went up as a result of higher costs for crude purchased in the . The average rise in gasoline prices was 17.3 per cent. Regular grade was increased from NT$4.80 per liter to NT$5.7 and premium grade from NT$5.70 to NT$6.60. The prices for diesel fuel, lubricating oil, fishing boat fuel and kerosene remain unchanged.
Joint college exams, now taken by around 80,000 students, may give way to admission by each college, university (File photo)
The Chinese Petroleum Corporation said the public would be paying only 40 per cent of the additional US$20.4 million a year that crude will cost.
Special Forces commanders of the Asian and Pacific area held their fourth annual conference at the Lungtang Army Base in northern in mid-June. Groups came from , , , the , and . Presiding at the opening ceremony was General Yu Hao-chang, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army.
Airborne units of the Chinese Army showed their skills at a military show given in southern after the conference.
The marked its 47th anniversary with all-day ceremonies at the campus in Fengshan, southern . Defense Minister Huang Chieh, a graduate of the first class at the in , urged the 3,984 cadets to devote themselves to the "Whampoa spirit" for total victory over the Communists.
General Huang quoted President Chiang Kai-shek, the founder of Whampoa (which became the CMA) as saying that the business of the soldier is to go where there is danger.
Admiral John S. McCain, commander-in-chief of U.S. Forces Pacific, came to for a two-day inspection visit and an exchange of defense views with top Chinese commanders. He met with Defense Minister Huang Chieh and General Chiang Ching-kuo, former defense minister and now vice premier. He decorated Kao Kuei-yuan, personal chief of staff to President Chiang Kai-shek, with the U.S. Legion of Merit. General Kao was chief of general staff from 1967 to 1970.
Spanish Ambassador Julio de Larracoechea, who spent nearly a quarter century in and , departed for home after receiving the Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon from his host government. The decoration was presented by Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai.
At a farewell dinner given by Vice President and Premier C. K. Yen, the long-time doyen of the diplomatic colony called his second motherland. , he said, is "the showcase of a great , as she can be conceived in the day of her redemption from Communism and a precious and exemplary pattern to encourage revival in the right direction."
Vice President Yen praised Ambassador Larracoechea for his years of tireless service and said he had won the respect of his colleagues in the diplomatic corps. He said the diplomatic relationship with is one of the Republic of China's most rewarding.
"Under the inspiring leadership of Generalissimo Franco," he said, " has never flirted with Communism and has steadfastly stood by us in the United Nations and elsewhere."
's new ambassador will be Miguel Angel Velarde Y Ruiz de Cenzano.
Resignation of Mayor Henry Kao of , who was reprimanded by a Judicial Yuan committee last April, was rejected by the Executive Yuan. The Cabinet said that Mayor Kao's services arc needed in the construction of and that his act of resigning showed his responsible attitude.
will get 1,037 new fire hydrants and slum clearance will give the city 87 new fire lanes. Fire Chief Li Pao-hung said most of the 2,305 hydrants arc connected to small diameter water pipes. New outlets will be installed along pipes of at least 50 centimeters. This will increase firefighting water supply by four to five times.
Planning is under way for a city facility to care for indigent mentally deranged. Some patients are now housed in private institutions at the expense of the city but receive little specialized care.
branch libraries are planned in Kuting, Chengchung, Ta-an and Hsitsun during the 1971-72 fiscal year. Funds will come from the budget for expansion of the Municipal Library, a project which has been dropped. Fifteen new reading rooms are to be added to the five already in operation.
Executive Yuan approval has been given regulations governing the digging up of streets for installation of utilities. Resurfacing will be the responsibility of those who tear up the streets. Efforts wtll be made to carry out all installations at the same time.
Car washing long has been the prerogative of teen-age boys in . Now the machine is competing with low cost, quick service. has its first automatic car wash at the gas station on , Section 2. Cost is US75 cents for a five-minute bath.
Rising bacteria counts led the Environmental Sanitation Department of the Taipei City Government to instruct residents and factories along the upper reaches of the to stop polluting the water with garbage and sewage. The Hsintien is 's principal source of domestic water.
Governor Chen Ta-ching introduced a proposed budget of nearly US$372 million at the Taiwan Provincial Assembly. No tax increases are contemplated but collection efficiency will be stepped up.
The Sino-American Fund for Economic and Social Development has budgeted US$47.5 million for projects in the 1971-72 fiscal year. About three-quarters of the amount will be for loans and one-quarter for grants. Key projects will be in agriculture and natural resources, industry and mining, communications and transportation, community development and public health, economics study and international cooperation and loans to private industry.
Sources of funds are loan repayments and interest on projects undertaken under the aid program that ended in 1965.
Families dedicated 100 per cent to farming have decreased by more than a third (34.05 per cent) in the last 10 years. A survey made between August, 1970, and February, 1971, showed 251,600 families entirely dependent on farming. On the other hand, families earning their livelihood mainly from farming increased. The number of farm households rose to the decade of the 1960s, up by 13.3 per cent. The agricultural population increased 5.82 per cent to 6,138,000.
Agricultural production was valued at US$1,214,250,000 last year, an increase of US$68,825,000 over 1969, according to the Taiwan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Exports of agricultural and processed agricultural products totaled US$340.4 million and made up 21.8 per cent of the export total.
The Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction will loan US$40 million for farm modernization in the next three years. The money will be spent on machinery, including power tillers.
consumers ate only 1.3 pounds of beef per capita last year but the amount is rising steadily. More than 53,000 head of cattle were slaughtered and only 300 beef were imported. Low-interest loans are being offered to farmers to raise beef cattle. The average is now only one head to 40 farmers with a ratio of 58 bulls to 42 cows.
US$200,000 will be spent to buy dairy cows from abroad to improve herds. Mechanization of the industry will be sought.
A fund of US$7.5 million will be established during the 1970s for forestry development. Loans will be made to encourage forestation.
JCRR is supporting a salt-washing technique of tile drainage to increase production in coastal saline soils. It was developed by Dutch agronomists and tested by the Taiwan Sugar Corporation. Cost of laying tiles 120 to 150 centimeters deep under a hectare of land is about US$625. This can be more than regained in the first year.
Movie houses are feeling the competition of television (File photo)
DDT will be banned in agriculture by the end of the year. It has already been withdrawn from household use and replaced by other insecticides.
Specialists of will help in fishery and the cultivation of rice and vegetables. A survey team will make detailed recommendations for a technical cooperation agreement.
Thirty thousand metric tons of rice will be sold to the for US$ metric ton (FOB). is hoping to sell more seafood products to the Republic of China.
Returning from the meeting of the International Press Institute, two Chinese representatives said that free world understanding of Asian press problems is increasing. The executive board of IPI rejected proposals that Chinese national committee membership be canceled as a result of the Yuyitung case.
Mandarin movie output is expected to drop 50 per cent this year to a low of about 60 films. Some of last year's 113 Mandarin features have not been released because of TV competition and the public's preference for foreign films. Most of those withheld were made on a shoestring budget.
's Giants went into the Asian and Pacific play-off of the Little League baseball competition with a 6 to 5 victory over the Taichung Golden Dragons. Both TTV and CTV televised the game island wide. The Asian-Pacific championship will be decided in among teams of the Republic of China, , Guam and the .