Although the Taiwan authorities proposed lately some policies on bringing in from China's mainland high-tech professionals to Taiwan, it has already missed the good opportunity, and even so, there are still too many restrictions, thus having very little effect, said Liu Chao-shiuan, former " vice premier" of "Taiwan Executive Yuan".
In recent years, the motherland has given priority to the development of high-tech industry, providing it with not only preferential policies to land tax and other levies but also with attention paid to touting in talents for the development of semiconductor.
Zhang Qi, a departmental director of Ministry of Information Industry, who is now attending the information technology exhibition in Taiwan, has revealed to media some preferential policies on luring Taiwan's high-tech manufacturers to invest in the Chinese mainland.
In the face of strong attraction from China's mainland for high-tech manufactories and businessmen, Taiwan "Ministry of Economic Affairs" has set loose restraints for high-tech professionals from China's mainland to Taiwan, hoping to make better use of mainland's talents.
Liu said that with previous advantages, Taiwan might have the chance to lure in high-tech professionals from China's mainland to Taiwan. However, as the environment for investment is deteriorating now, Taiwan's high-tech industries have flocked to the Chinese mainland. And as China's mainland is also in dire need of high-tech talents, those outstanding professionals would rather stay there or go to Europe and America than to Taiwan.
Liu is worrying that the heavy politics practiced by Taiwan New Authorities have laid too much stress on ideology, and so the high-tech exchanges across the Straits may have difficulties to go ahead.
(People's Daily 12/12/2000)
