Towards a world-class technology center! Lai Ching-te outlines a vision to turn Okayama around and connect southern Taiwan

President Lai Qingde went south to Kaohsiung to support Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Lai Ruilong.

President Lai Ching-te went to Gangshan, Kaohsiung this evening (7th) to attend the Democratic Progressive Party's Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Lai Ruilong's campaign. Secretary-General of the Presidential Office Pan Meng'an, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Qimai, Legislator Wu Siyao and others were also present to support the campaign. In addition to calling on the villagers to support Lai Ruilong in taking over, Lai Ching-te also proposed three major development visions: industrial upgrading, transportation construction and the Southern Taiwan Science and Technology Corridor. He emphasized that Okayama will transform from a traditional screw town to a smart manufacturing core, laying out a development blueprint for North Kaohsiung in the next ten years.

President Lai clearly declared in Okayama this time that he will position northern Kaohsiung as the strategic core of southern Taiwan's industrial upgrading in the next decade. Party and government officials analyzed that the entire speech focused on the three main axes of "industrial upgrading, transportation connectivity, and technology corridors," elevating local elections to the level of national industrial layout and conveying the political signal that central-local cooperation and urban progress cannot be interrupted.

First, from the traditional screw kingdom to a high-end smart manufacturing center. First of all, Lai Ching-te affirmed that Okayama used screws and steel to support Taiwan's economic miracle in the past. He also proposed that through AI intelligence, low-carbon transformation, and independent aerospace and defense industries, Okayama could be upgraded from a traditional industrial town to a science and technology hub. From the traditional screw kingdom to a high-end smart manufacturing center. The demand is not only to create output value, but also to allow young people to find high-paying jobs in their hometowns, taking into account local industry and generational development.

Furthermore, the government plans to open up the development of North Kaohsiung and Dudu by extending the MRT. Connecting Luzhu and Tainan from Gangshan, we will combine residential, commercial and living functions through transportation construction to create a common living circle between South Kaohsiung, North Kaohsiung and Tainan. It will also make sightseeing better and transform major construction into a visible improvement in people's lives. At the same time, the Southern Taiwan Science and Technology Corridor will be built with Okayama as the center. Connecting Tainan Nanke, Sharon, Luzhu Science Park, Qiaotou and Nanzi TSMC in series, combined with the advantages of smart semiconductor manufacturing, wafer foundry, precision machinery and metal processing, Okayama has become an important hub, rising from an industrial hinterland to an important node in the world-class technology supply chain.

Party and government officials said that Kaohsiung’s urban governance inheritance from Chen Ju, Chen Qimai to Lai Ruilong, and the most important strategy of the president’s entire speech was to connect support for Lai Ruilong with the development of North Kaohsiung in the next ten years, so that voters can see not just a candidate, but an urban development blueprint that can continue construction, promote industry, and transform the local area.