About Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung is the largest industrial and commercial harbor city in Taiwan. In order to solidify the industrial development of Kaohsiung and increase the international competitiveness of the city, Economic Development Bureau of the City Government actively assists the traditional businesses to perform transformation and upgrading, promotes newly emerged technological industries and expands marketing of the city and business solicitation so as to increase business opportunities and facilitate economic development of the city.
1. In the aspect of promotion of economic development, marketing and business solicitation:
Promote economic development:
(1) Continuous investments in Kaohsiung from domestically and globally renowned corporations
(2) Improve investment incentives and reward local investments
To promote the industrial development, encourage industrial investments, R&D and innovation and therefore boost industrial competitiveness of the City, create jobs and prosper local economic development, the City Government formulated incentive regulations such as the “Self-government Ordinances for Promoting Industrial Development in Kaohsiung City”, the “Kaohsiung City Self-government Ordinances for Governing Receipts, Expenditures, Custody and Utilization of the Private Investment Encouragement Fund”, the “Enforcement Regulations Governing the Promotion of Industrial Development in Kaohsiung City”, and the “Guidelines for Establishing Kaohsiung City Industrial Development Promotion Review Panel”. Focusing on the 12 strategic and key industries, including the cultural and creative industry that has been actively promoted by the City Government, as well as other industries that have been developed with the guidance and assistance of the City Government, subsidies for financing interests, premises rental, housing tax, new employee salary, vocational training and so on, are given to qualified companies with an aim of attracting more corporations to invest in the City. The subsidy program puts more emphasis on the subsidy for the new employee salary in response to the City Government’s industrial development policy. It is expected that the industrial restructuring of the Greater Kaohsiung area will accelerate the industry in the City. The industries in Kaohsiung, will move toward a low pollution, low energy consumption, and knowledge intensive environments after the city-county merger.
2. Promotion of industrial service
(1) Kaohsiung City Local Small Business Innovation Research Program (Local SBIR), The program helped enterprises to obtain 724 patents and numerous international invention awards.
(2) Kaohsiung City Government Small and Medium Enterprice Commercial Strategic Loan, the City Government deems the green energy industry an emerging industry to be strategically promoted, and places the solar photovoltaic industry on the top of the list of industrial promotion.Due to the highly self-liquidating of solar photovoltaic system, the City Government considers making this industry eligible to apply for the loan.
(3) Promote green energy industry
A.Solar photovoltaic promotion program
B.Promote green loans
C.Assist the private sector in establishing a renewable energy electrical company
3. Industrial services and assistances
(1) Reinforce assistance to and supervision of unregistered factories
(2) Assist the private sector in privately-initiated industrial zoning applications, adjoining non-urban land change applications, and new business plans
(3) Industrial park zoning applications
In response to the demand for industrial land in Kaohsiung, the Bureau assesses and decides appropriate land for industrial parks in accordance with the Act for Industrial Innovation. meanwhile, it will stimulate consumer demands and attract relative businesses to move into the industrial park, contributing to the local economic growth and tax revenue.
4. Promote MICE industry
(1) Formulate the “Enforcement Regulations Governing Activities Related to Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) Held in Kaohsiung City” to attract more organizations to hold MICE in Kaohsiung, shaping the City as a convention and exhibition venue.
(2) In coordination with the opening of the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center in April 2014 and to foster the City’s exhibition ability, the City Government has established the “Convention and Exhibition Promotion Office, Kaohsiung City Government” and an exhibition hotline to provide each exhibition project with respective assistance and consultation, reinforced and improved exhibition infrastructure, and endeavored to shape the City as an unique, attractive bay city exhibition venue, expecting to market the City’s exhibition service.
(3) The Bureau actively participated to reinforce the relationship with international exhibition associations, explore more exhibition business opportunities from abroad for Kaohsiung, learn the trend in international exhibitions, and market Kaohsiung’s exhibition service. In addition, the Bureau held Kaohsiung Exhibition and Convention Seminar and invited participants from domestic exhibition industry and associations as well as academic institutions, for the purpose of announcing the City Government’s determination of developing the exhibition industry as well as publicizing Kaohsiung’s exhibition service policies.
(4) Organize business negotiation sessions and undertake global marketing to create business opportunities for local businesses.