When Taoyuan City in 2015 was elevated to the status of one of Taiwan’s six special municipalities, Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan and his staff embraced the concept of using smart-city techniques to transform Taoyuan into the country’s hub for digital information innovation. The still-expanding program has already proven its value. It has helped provide residents of…
A new chapter in Taiwan-U.S. city-to-city relations has begun. On August 3, Taoyuan City Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan and Ras J. Baraka, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, jointly held an online sister-city agreement signing ceremony. Newark is the 15th city to sign such an agreement with Taoyuan since Cheng began his tenure as mayor, and is…
Taoyuan City, the gateway to Taiwan, occupies a core strategic position in terms of industrial internationalization, transformational development, and logistics management, and links Taiwan to the global market via sea and air transport. The Taiwanese government’s “Taoyuan Aerotropolis Project” reappropriates usage of the 4,564-hectare area of land surrounding the Taoyuan International Airport through urban planning….
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to plague the world, Taoyuan is sparing no effort to help its sister cities and other friends around the globe by sending supplies such as masks, protective gowns, sanitizers, goggles, and gloves to help in their combat against the virus. The municipality’s Taoyuan Helps campaign has attracted media attention and has…
In terms of economics and population, Taoyuan has become one of Taiwan’s key municipalities. Improved transportation infrastructure has reduced commuting time to central Taipei, about 27 kilometers away, attracting an influx of families. Major projects like the Taoyuan Aerotropolis are helping this bastion of manufacturing reinvent itself. Taoyuan is the location of Taiwan’s principal international…
The Aerotropolis is more than a beautiful plan; it is the key to driving the Taiwan economy to new heights. Taoyuan is the gateway to Taiwan and a key aviation hub for the Asia-Pacific region. In an era of increased global competition, airport-centered economic activity has become one of the main engines of urban development….
The stress is being placed on quality service and Taiwanese culture. The last decade has been full of ups and downs for Taiwan’s hospitality industry. Initially driven by a surge in Chinese tourism thanks to president Ma Ying-jeou’s strengthening of cross-Strait ties in 2008, the following years saw the construction of hundreds of new hotels…
At long last, the much anticipated Taoyuan Aerotropolis project is ready for take-off. The Aerotropolis is a planned transportation, logistics, industrial, and residential city encompassing the existing Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. With a footprint of over 4,500 hectares, the Aerotropolis will be one of Taiwan’s largest national infrastructure projects ever. Originally conceived years ago as…
One of Taiwan’s most up-and-coming cities hopes to become a preeminent innovation hub in Asia. Taiwan has bold ambitions for its industrial transformation. One of the central tenets of that bid is the Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan, which policymakers hope will create a hotbed of technological innovation in the northern Taiwan city of Taoyuan….
A delegation comprised of Taoyuan City Government officials, China Airlines Chairman Ho Nuan-hsuan, and Taoyuan International Airport Corporation President and CEO Shiau Deng-ke, led by Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan, visited the United States from July 4 to July 15 on the “2017 Taoyuan City Trade Delegation to the West Coast USA.” A total of 40…
