Chiayi City GovernmentChiayi City Government

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} The rise of streaming platforms has made the film and TV industry with great business opportunities. The industry plays the role of exporting local cultures. The center of film assistance and development was founded to integrate filming projects and resources to attract film crews to Chiayi. Chiayi City amplifies the energy of the film industry through international film festivals to drive the development of related start-ups, showcasing areas, professional training, and culture cultivation in order to promote the marketing as well as tourism of the city.     Lighting on hold, make-up off, Chiayi City in position, and camera on. Ready, and action! The shooting of the movie titled Future has begun. Chiayi City is the protagonist and the citizens are the screenwriter and the director. The story is about the future of this city. Focus and wake up. The climax of the story of Chiayi is coming.     Spotlight 1: Filming Resources Organizing   Agency for Film Assistance: Founding the agency for filming assistance to provide instant consultancy, making film crews feel the hospitality towards them.   Platform for setting recommendations: Creating the platform to introduce the distinctive places of Chiayi City. Integrating the services that include: movie set building, scenario setting, the database for historical stories, and online consultancy for filming assistance.   Subsidy for filming budget: Open applications for the subsidy to the budget on movie sets to encourage shooting projects that bring positive effects on Chiayi City.     Spotlight 2: Promotion for Film Culture   International Art Doc Film Festival: An international film festival featuring art documentaries. Inviting representatives from different countries to participate to enlarge the scale every year. Broadening the diverse artistic area of the city and enhancing the artistic energy to increase the visibility of Chiayi City.   3-minute Short Film Contest: Inviting creators from different countries to create artistic and original modern experimental pieces. Being the platform for short film creation and visual art creation.   Documentary Filming Entrustment Project: Inviting filming crews to shoot documentaries based on stories of Chiayi to intrigue the local and gather the energy for people to learn about Chiayi City from those small stories.   Cross-spatial showcasing space: Planning for showcasing space by collaborating with different stores to make the film & TV industry immerse into daily life.     Spotlight 3: Film Talent Nurturing   Talent workshops: Gathering professionals in the film industry during International Art Doc Film Festival to hold lectures and workshops for local film crews.   Hobby development for young people: Organizing promotions of films for young people such as observations, contests or visits to guide the local youth through the film industry.   School promotion: Nurturing students with interests in video or music creation through camps. Holding seminars for film-related teachers to increase knowledge.  

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} We introduce experiment, innovation and sustainability into the educational system to train the students to ponder upon self-worthiness through innovative interactive courses. We will keep strengthening bilingual education and internationalization. The power of technology will be developed through digital schools. The City Government will show more supports on athletes participating in sports games. We anticipate Chiayi City to educate influential world citizens with adaptability.     Chinese literature is the rap music of our ancestors. Cuisines are the experimental subjects of science. English, the sign language, Taiwanese, Hakka, and the indigenous languages are the music chapters on the music class. Around the corner of the street has my school desk on this campus without fences. I’m not well-behaved but not bad. I’m beautiful and energetic. The city educates bizarre talents like me.     Spotlight 1: Self-actualization – Talent Nurturing   Innovative learning to face the future with confidence: Combining sports and health to link education of interactive exploration. Promoting the concept of regular exercise and healthy diets for students to prepare for challenges with confidence and health.   Talent nurturing to unbox experimental education: Transforming Daye Junior High School into an experimental school in 2023 with experimental classes planned. Having breakthrough with interdisciplinary lessons and talent nurturing to provide students options for education.   Thinking about life to explore self-worthiness: Selecting articles on the parent-teacher communication books to implant concepts of morality and life education. Training students’ ability of thinking and helping students with self-development by building a complete system of consultancy through the integration of resources from schools, neighborhoods and the government.     Spotlight 2: Education on Sustainability to Adapt to the Society   Creating bilingual environments to develop international communication skills: Setting up bilingual environments in school and enhancing the international education as well as developing the connection of students to the local culture. Combining SDGs to make students citizens of the world that hold intelligibility for different cultures.   Promotion science education to enhance digital learning: Providing new platforms for science education through lessons on technology innovation. Holding Science 168 Education Expo that allows students to make use of scientific knowledge acquired and digital tools. Developing the ability of independent thinking and problem solving as well as the concept of eco-friendliness and sustainable development.   Aesthetics of life to develop knowledge of arts and culture: Providing students the time and space to explore with arts, culture and life as learning materials. Making the communities and schools places for students to develop knowledge of aesthetics. Providing the stage for students to perform and present.   Creating distinctive features to show energy of schools: Enhancing professional teachers through experimental classes to help students with balanced development from innovative lessons. Imagination and creativity being inspired by the school features.     Spotlight 3: Mental and Physical Health – Future with Confidence   Creating friendly childcare environment: Promoting affordable childcare and education services. Enhancing professionals to ensure the quality. Completing teaching environment and facilities for children to grow up healthy mentally and physically.   A healthy city to promote sports: Building a city of sports in favor of the health of the citizens. Optimizing fitness clubs and stadiums for students of new generations to learn about the importance of exercise to happiness.   Advocating for teachers’ rights to enhance teaching quality: Striving for the rights of teachers by promoting the Teacher Professional Development Support System to enhance the teaching quality. Creating a harmonious and equal environment in school to ensure the mental and physical health of teachers and students.  

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} We keep the old city alive by opening Chiayi Art Museum and holding Taiwan Design Expo. “Innovation” and “Experience” as the core values, we will introduce entrepreneurial teams of young people and other teams for street redesign and neighborhood redesign design teams. West Market and Xinzhong Police Station will be transformed into the base for people aspiring to start a business. We will revitalize old spaces of the city to attract young people to return for business. Value for the journey of culture will be created with the foundation of the city’s rich history to develop its own style and economy. We infuse the new and old for the prosperity.     The trend of the future has been decided. “Old” is the charm of new things: old houses in new clothes, old markets with new ideas and old beliefs with new faiths. Young people gather to brainstorm ideas of new tricks on old streets and fresh liquor in old bottles. We gather here with modern operation names to feel old stories from new perspectives to drive the energy of Chiayi’s charms.     Spotlight 1: Young People Starting Businesses   Space release: Located in the important section of the old city, West Market will be the base for young people’s practical experience and the old Xinzhong Police Station will be the training court for local business starting. The 2 bases offer spaces for the teams and activate local business activities.   Consultancy for business starting: Setting up Chiayi Creative Hub that offers consultancy on industries, management, employment matching, skill training and integration of strategies.   Subsidy: Projects for the subsidy of young people starting businesses through evaluation to support potential entrepreneurs.   Hardware upgrade: Creating the digital multifunctional space such as streaming studios and Podcast recording studios to provided facilities required to start a business.   Brand evolution: Arranging consulting teams to check and optimize business owners on digital transformation, design aesthetics, creative marketing, and product & service innovation.     Spotlight 2: Placemaking   Old house revitalization: Revitalizing old houses to drive the development. Integrating the historic and cultural resources to broaden the area of strategic urban planning   Distinctive buildings: Combining the issues such as old wooden houses and young people starting businesses to create new appearances for old buildings in order to create a new image for the City of Wood.   Brand of hospitality industry: Attracting hotel owners to station in Chiayi City. Assisting legal distinctive B&Bs to infuse local features. Old houses being transformed into hotel rooms to create a high-class brand.     Spotlight 3: Innovation of Culture Trips   Sustainable trips: Decorating the corner space of Huangbin Library to explore the history of Ertong through various exhibitions. Planning fieldwork for young people with enterprises participating to promote sustainable local trips.   Cultural brand: Inviting professional teams to combine aesthetics and the impression of temples to create refreshing images of local beliefs.   Walkable space: Infusing local features into the design of sidewalks to fit the surroundings. Improving damaged façades of buildings to provide safe and comfortable spaces for pedestrians.   A settlement of new trends: Optimizing the visual and spatial arrangement of store owners registered for the project. Creating a high-quality settlement of arts and culture.   Nighttime economy: Collaborating with night markets and distinctive districts to plan for a nighttime economic area with local features.  

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} We create new experience of the modern culture based on the rich cultural heritage to respond to the needs of modern life. We will establish the information cluster (the main library, G9 Creative Park, Chiayi Tobacco Factory and tutoring center) to make libraries not only somewhere for borrowing books but a space for learning. Wing Base of Arts and Culture is set up in G9 Creative Park. A new performance hall with the capacity of 280 people will be built as well as the new exhibition area of the art museum. We will keep promoting Chiayi Tobacco Culture Park and build a new spot of arts and culture by combining concepts of technology and designing. This is to present the valuable and unique culture of Chiayi City and to shape the life and imagination of the citizens.     Cultural Affairs Bureau Director-general’s “Archimedes' principle” After clocking out, the director-general enjoyed the bath as the happiest moment once a month. She entered the bathtub with the doubts at work while the water spilling out. “Eureka! Eureka!” she shouted. We make culture spill out if the citizens do not enter the bathtub (Cultural Affairs Bureau). In the future, Chiayi City will establish an inclusive people-oriented space by introducing the mindset of design and technical resources. We will renovate historic buildings and revitalize old spaces to add more artistic places where artworks and performances can be exhibited. There will be no more fences for arts and culture.     Spotlight 1: New Energy of Culture   Arts and Culture Upgrade Flagship Project: Inviting international and domestic teams to perform in order to broaden our horizon on arts.   Art Digital Interaction Project: Combining technology to create an online art gallery as a breakthrough from physical exhibitions for artworks. Adopting new formats for art display and promotion to create virtual interactive experience.   Disaster prevention for wooden structures: Protecting the 6,000 wooden structures within this city by making related plans to ensure the safety of the old houses by meeting modern living requirements.   Design talent and industry development: Introducing the concept of design to build a local brand from designing, making to products.     Spotlight 2: New Place of Culture   Main Library: Building a people-oriented library-themed park as a communication space for lifelong learning by combining the elements of the wooden city and local features.   Wing Base of Arts and Culture: Developing new base of arts and culture. Planning a diverse performing space with the capacity of 280 people. Setting up storage room for valuable art collections.   Chiayi Tobacco Culture Park: Old factory as the starting point, planning the old Chiayi Tobacco Factory to build a place of diverse arts and culture. Process of tobacco making and the change of city as the concept for the preservation of the old site.   Placemaking for the dormitories of the old prison: Open up with the base of wood to extend to various topics such as education, creation, life and recreation in order to enrich the life in the dormitories.     Spotlight 3: New Experience of Culture   Military Village Life Cultural Museum: Preserving the culture of military villages to build a diverse recreational space.   Building Material Bank of Hinoki: Founding the one and only building material bank of hinoki for the recycling of 2nd-handed materials. Combining the resources of the experimental sawmill to provide advice on renovation of old wooden houses and to supply materials. Creating unique life style of sustainable development.   Library and Information Cluster: Organizing libraries within the city and repositioning them as places for socializing and knowledge transmission. Deepening knowledge into each aspect of life to open up a new imagination to libraries.  

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} We promote to establish medical schools and assist the hospitals within the city to become medical centers in order to provide better care services and healthcare environment. We aim to break the stereotype of the elderly being taken care of to realize the “3rd-phase Life Philosophy” and to create senior business opportunities towards the goal as an age-friendly city.   Link to Strong Age-friendly City     Who is stronger? My grandpa is the one. Who is braver? My grandma will teach you what bravery means. The dictionary of this city lacks a few words: grandpa, grandma, old lady or old sir. We call them big brothers or big sisters. One is young as long as they are young in mind. Life never declines, so relax!     Spotlight 1: Healthy Environment Establishment   Sports accessibility in every corner: Introducing workout instructors and facilities into parks and certain spots for the accessibility of the elderly. Integrating health management to provide exercise patterns suitable for the elderly. Setting up multiple senior training grounds, and creating senior fitness clubs.   Age-friendly diet: Consulting stores in making repairs to accessible spaces and providing chewable and nutritional diets. Integrating accessible diets and hotels into the living network of Chiayi City. Promoting neighborhood education on nutrition as well as setting up senior cafeterias.   Medical quality upgrade: Assisting universities to found medical departments and hospitals to become medical centers. Providing high-quality healthcare and training for professionals.   Friendly transmission: Promoting senior and friendly tourist bus routes as well as for long-term caretakers. Making long-term care centers and medical institutes in the city bus stops to encourage the elderly to take public transports.     Spotlight 2: Creating Senior Values   Job positions for the elderly: Setting up service centers for senior talents to create employment opportunities and to provide employment matching. Encouraging employers to hire senior talents to pass down knowledge and experience to promote communications between generations, which allows the elderly to earn enough incomes.   Subsidy to health industry: Providing subsidies for industrial innovation and innovative services to accelerate enhancement of health industry and competitiveness of medical industry.   Health parks in the happy city: Integrating resources such as healthcare, social welfares, and smart technologies to create a living zone with residency, health and dignity. Planning life apartments to form a self-supplied settlement with the elderly.     Spotlight 3: 3rd-phase Life Philosophy   Dream realization: Practicing communication and inclusion between generations through starting senior music bands and instructing autobiography writing. Initiating the momentum to realize dreams. Promoting the transformation from gray-haired generation to strong generation as the 3rd-phase of life.   Tech dream realization: Promoting age-friendly lessons on technology in communities. Guiding the elderly through technology to learn the fundamental knowledge of modern society. Promoting synchronization of the elderly with the trend to increase value of self-actualization.  

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} Climate change has indeed become the greatest challenge to global sustainable development. 2050 Net-zero as the goal, Chiayi City will keep the electric bus and YouBike, and promote electric scooters as well as projects for sustainability. The City Government will also promote low-carbon living style to the citizens: low-carbon communities and low-carbon schools. Introducing Sustainability Serf-government Ordinance into city governance, we will assist with corporate transformation to drive opportunities of sustainability-related businesses, and establish a resilient city through for the sustainability.     Circular economy: gradual growth Sustainable architecture: covering the whole city Net-zero transforming businesses: progressing step by step Innovation of green services: Surrounding Green transportation and electric scooter: Use rate increasing Greenery and low-carbon diet: Added constantly Simmering, a deep breath before turning off the fire. Green landscape, refreshing air, and peace life. Sustainability of Chiayi City completes.     Spotlight 1: Sustainability as Business Opportunities   Net-zero business transitioning: Consulting corporates with industrial transformation and inspecting on facilities, use of low-carbon energy, business mode, and circular economy. Promoting green factories.   Old House Project: Combining topics such as old wooden houses and youth entrepreneurship to give a brand-new appearance to the city's old architectures in order to create the landscape with historic features of the city.   Novel green service industry: Attracting green service industry and assisting business owners with circular economy and sustainability to increase employment opportunities.   Green energy sustainable park: Establishing green energy sustainable parks and transforming incinerators into green power plants to realize energy from waste.     Spotlight 2: Sustainability as Life   Low-carbon green transmission: Encouraging public transports, optimizing biking lanes, and subsidizing for electric scooters through policies to lower the carbon emission from transportation.   Sunlight Roof Blooming Project: Implementing the project to subsidize photovoltaic systems for self-supplied energy.   Circular economy sharing: Collaborating with service start-ups to encourage buying services instead of products. Promoting shared transport services to reduce reliance on private vehicles.   Disaster prevention: Enhancing storage of greenhouse gases by planting tees and increasing public green areas to prepare for floods and natural disasters. Promoting disaster-preventing communities and disaster prevention specialists.   Low-carbon life consensus: Promoting certification for low-carbon communities and low-carbon schools. Consulting enterprises to build green restaurants with Catering Food Safety Consultancy Project. Promoting the idea of cherishing food and integrating the resources to provide to those in need.     Spotlight 3: Sustainability into Management   Purification control: Applying smart sensing technologies with IoT to adopt different controlling strategies that target potential pollution hotspots based on local conditions.   Low-carbon management: Initiating the Net-zero flagship project to promote the municipal self-government ordinance and to complete regulations on climate change relief and adjustment.   Public participation: Implementing the public participation mechanism, and organizing expert advisory meetings as well as conducting talent training courses. Organizing net-zero policies and planning for net-zero strategies and measures.   Sustainable architecture: Introducing greening, green architecture, and smart architecture to create sustainable buildings with local features in order to move forward to the goal as a low-carbon sustainable city.  

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} Young people are the very engine that drives urban development. We target outstanding talents and support them with the integration of the supporting system for births, childcare and education. We promote the 2-home policy to attract talents into Chiayi City from short-term move to permanent residency. We aim to found design centers and keep enhancing assistance for starting businesses to support novel industries and to develop the economic power in new generations. More young people will choose to settle in Chiayi.     A banquet is taking place in this city. Your creativity is the clue to the destination, and the enthusiasm for participation is your invitation. Do not worry about your inexperience. Do not worry about making a wish to start a family or business. If you dare to claim your domain here, there will be partners as your company. Chiayi City has it ready if you have the courage to chase your dreams.     Spotlight 1: Parenting Reassured – Chiayi’s Happiness Style   Birth services and public childcare: Providing various birth services: examinations, stress relief and health promotion, as well as postpartum care, parenting guidance, and addition of public childcare.   Phase-oriented welfare of giving birth: Chiayi City to providing additional services for those having the second or the third child.   Integration of supporting platforms: Providing integrated resources of different departments to the citizens for residents of all ages in Chiayi City to access to required resources easily.     Spotlight 2: Nurturing the Youth – Our Style of Future   Talent training for different industries: Designing training sessions and activities for young people according to the trend and features of nearby industrial parks to enhancing social abilities. Promoting study on employment of young people and career experiencing.   Youth Lab Upgrade: Promoting diverse talent training, public participation, career development, consultancy for business starting, and innovative incubation. Holding monthly events at Chiayi Youth Lab. Founding a committee for youth consultancy and creating a platform for young people to provide policy suggestions and engage in communication. Referencing executable or potential proposals.   Employability training for young people: Promoting summer internships or part-time projects for college students to learn about workplaces in advance to raise the competitiveness.     Spotlight 3: Employment of Talent – Progressive Style of Migrants   Trial of 2-Home Policy: releasing available houses for business starting along with the old-house renovation project. Subsidizing the costs on renovation, house safety insurance, and notarization. Recruiting 2-Home policy teams to make Chiayi City the city of “city hopping” in the Yun-Chia-Nan area.   Employment matchmaking platform: Integrating employment resources in Chiayi and collaborating with major recruitment websites to provide employment information around Chiayi.   New mode of business starting: Developing economic power of new generations by offering novel job opportunities for young people to start businesses in Chiayi. Aiming to make the world Chiayi City’s factory and market, and founding innovative design centers to provide assistance to young people staring busniesses.  

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} In response to the Railway Elevation Project, we will create the image of Chiayi Station as the entrance. To the west, it connects the two parks (Youzhong Park, Fanzigou Park), Chiayi Art Museum and G9 Creative Park. To the east, it links Forestry Culture Park, Main Library, and Chiayi Old Prison Dormitories. We strive for tourism and business prosperity by opening up through environment reconstruction and creating new life of culture with diversity, equity and inclusion.     We fetch a turquoise ribbon and put it onto the sewing machine, stitching it with the greenery of parks carefully. Here we add a patch of culture in brick red, and there we sew the pattern of trees. Rotated, the ribbon is sewn with the canvas of artists and continues to the wrinkles left by the history. Railway-liked stitches stayed on the land of Chiayi City to put the city altogether tightly.     Spotlight 1: Green Landscape, Environment Reconstruction   Green Corridor of Arts & Culture: Connection for green areas of Fanzigou Park and Youzhong Park to form a green corridor of arts and culture by linking G9 Creative Park and Chiayi Art Museum.   Urban recreational space: Water quality improvement and water bank development for the drainage of the north main line and the Weixin branch line. Connecting Beisianhu Park, Chiayi Park and Lantan, and revitalizing Linsen Campus of National Chiayi University to create a large-scale urban recreational area.     Spotlight 2: Culture Inclusion to Open Up   Big Station Project: Reshaping the image for Chiayi Station by organizing advertising signs in the front of the station and creating a clean and passenger-waiting space as well as comfortable sidewalks. Transforming the old station into a municipal historic relic.   Connection to culture of the Forest Railway: Diminishing the boundary of Forest Railway Garage Park to integrating with the city and to combine it with the history of forestry culture.   Landscape construction of Chiayi Old Prison: Renovation of Chiayi Old Prison’s surroundings and establishment of a pedestrian-friendly environment. Enriching the dormitories to build a base of placemaking.     Spotlight 3: People-oriented and Friendly Transmission   People-oriented routes of tourism: Enhancing the continuity of walkability and biking to plan friendly people-oriented routes of tourism.   Public transportation: Improving the current traffic conditions by coordinating with public transport systems to connect tourist destinations around the whole city.     Spotlight 4: New Area of Prosperity with Increased Energy   Regional integration: Connecting the Forestry Culture Park BOT (including the old fish market and the old fruit and vegetable market), Chiayi Municipal Museum, and Chiayi Municipal Culture Center. Extending to Beimen Station and Lishin Hotel to integrate the areas on both sides of the railway.   Education spaces: Integrating the main library, Pei Shin Junior High School, and Linsen Campus of National Chiayi University to create a large-scale reading and learning space as a new educational area.  

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} Connecting industrial parks in the towns nearby, we plan the development of 1,227 hectares of land by introducing novel industries for the development of West District with 5 novel industries: economy, transportation, education, healthcare and housing. We will create a brand-new industrial and living zone to increase employment opportunities. The high-quality residential and commercial areas will be planned to attract the employees in the industrial parks to settle in. A new life center will be built with decent life functions in the Yun-Chia-Nan area.     “Go west, life is peaceful there… go west. This is what we're gonna do.” This city is giving a buff to its neighborhoods, infused with vitality, economy, and intelligence, to become a rich and abundant haven of living. The era of western part of Chiayi City comes with innovation and safety as the energy of new life emerges. Go West, the promised land of Chiayi City is right there.     Spotlight 1: Economic and Trade Service Center   Large-scale commercial center establishment: Integrating the development of nearby industries to establish large commercial centers in order to boost spaces of logistics and economic service. Realizing the shopping center in the Yun-Chia-Nan area with “West District Development.”   Environment for innovative R&D: Setting up convention centers and music centers to build an environment for innovative research and development by making the most of being the center of 2 industry chains of Chiayi County.     Spotlight 2: Healthcare and Medical Settlement   Medical Center: Integrating medical care, long-term care, and life care systems to build a medical center and establish the healthcare hub in the Yun-Chia-Nan area.   Promotion of Medical School: Developing a professional medical talent training center to support universities starting medical departments with abundant medical resources as the foundation.     Spotlight 3: Comfortable Living Corridor   Network construction: Planning a network of 3 east-west routes, 3 north-south routes and 3 circular lines to maintain a good quality of transportation and living environment in response to the demands from population and transmission resulting from the development of industrial parks.   Light rail construction: Planning the light rail system from the connection between High-Speed Railway Chiayi Station and Chiayi City. Utilizing real estate nearby through the light rail to meet financial balance and to ensure convenience of walking and transit facilities to make the most of the construction.   Water trails: Utilizing strategies based on ecology, environmental adaptation, and landscape aesthetics to create accessible water trails around the riverbanks of Chiayi City.     Spotlight 4: Intelligent Sustainable Housing   Community of sustainable ecology: Building high-quality residential communities of sustainability, energy-efficiency, and living functions to attract talent residents in response to the development of nearby industrial parks.   Urban aesthetics establishment: Balancing the relationships between industry, environment, and residents by connecting landscape greenery and ecological resources. Building a distinctive brand by creating a living environment of culture, greenery, and aesthetics.   Intelligent housing: Introducing living spaces with environmental aesthetics to enhance intelligent and digital functions of residency.     Spotlight 5: Innovative Education of Talent   Talent training center: Founding experimental schools and talent development centers. Upgrading learning facilities. Creating a living environment conducive to innovative research and development.   Innovative education: Incorporating educational technologies to attract novel industries and talents and to build settlement for experimental education.   Innovative research and development: Promoting talent training programs in industrial settlements to enhance interaction between different industries and to encourage enterprises to experiment and innovate.

.cp.interduce{margin:8px 0}.cp.interduce > img{float:left;max-width:40%;margin-right:15px;border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;padding-right:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce > img{margin:8px 0;display:block;width:100%;max-width:none;float:none}}.cp.interduce:after{content:"​";display:block;height:0;clear:both}.cp.interduce-list{overflow:hidden;list-style:none;border-left:0px solid #e4e4e4;padding-left:15px}@media (max-width: 560px){.cp.interduce-list{border-left:0;padding-left:0}}.cp.interduce-list li + li{margin-top:8px}.cp.interduce-caption{font-weight:700;display:block;margin:8px 0} Arrangements in advance connect different areas for development. We build the new network of 3 east-west routes, 3 north-south routes and 3 circular lines to make transportation more convenient and secure and to drive industrial development. We plan the regional transportation network and strive for inter-city transportation.  The light rail will connect the High-Speed Railway Chiayi Station and Taiwan Railway Chiayi Station to build the route for commute and tourism.     Rong calls his family before returning home for the weekend: “Mom! You don’t have to pick me up at the High-Speed Railways Station. It won’t take long to go home by light rail.”   Rong’s mother insists: “Rong! Don’t bother. I will pick you up. It doesn’t take long if I ride the new routes and turn to the circular one.”   With the elevated routes and the light rail, the story above will be something common to occur. To drive or not to drive, that is the question.     Spotlight 1: Inter-city Transportation – 2 Rails (HSR and TRA) and Light Rail Light Rail Connecting 2 Rails: Utilizing the light rail to connect the train station, the High-Speed Rail station, and the natural resources for tourism of Chiayi to create efficient green transmission and to prevent from traffic issues.   Railway for Commuting: Combining multiple projects to develop major industrial parks through the railway for commuting to enhance the relation between Chiayi City and Chiayi County.   Light Rail Area Development: Taking the advantages of light rail to integrate with near estates. Promoting fiscal sustainability and balance to ensure the convenience of walking and transfer facilities around the light rail stations and to enhance the overall effectiveness of the light rail.   Network enhancement for flexibility: Reserving for possible new route demands arising from future urban development, and maintaining the flexibility for the expansion.     Spotlight 2: Network of 3 East-west Routes, 3 North-south Routes and 3 Circular Lines New circular lines in West District: Integrating the program for West District Development to establish new circular lines that connect Daxicuo and Liucuo.   Commuting routes to industrial parks: Considering the development of nearby industrial parks, new roads will be constructed: connecting Wenhua Road to link Minxiong Industrial Park to Xinsheng Road, connecting Xingang Industrial Park to the main route towards downtown, broadening the route that connects Jiatai Industrial Park with West District.   Main road diversion system: Integrating the new circular lines in West District and routes for commuting due to the traffic on Provincial Highway 1, Wenhua Road, Provincial Highway 18, and Mituo Road during rush hour. Implementing diversion to lower traffic flow of entering and leaving downtown.   Diversion of people and freight: Niuchou River Circular Express and Bazhang River Circular Express constructed to connect National Freeway 1 and National Freeway 3 along with the development around nearby industrial parks for efficient freight delivery. Diversion of freight and people to be achieved for the safety of road users.   Balance of East and West: New interchange in the east to avoid convergence on single route for the citizens to easily connect to National Freeway 3 and for the balance of East District and West District to enhance living functions.