 | The current industry status of Tainan County | | Tainan County is located in the center of the Chianan Plain, 2,016 square kilometers in area, ranked ninth in the nation and accounts for 5.6% of Taiwan's total land area. The arable land area 93,452 hectares, ranks the first in the nation. The population is about 1.1 million, with 571,000 men and about 536,000 women, ranking the eighth in the nation,. The population density per square kilometer is around 549.39 people. Administrative region divides the county into 31 cities, towns and villages. | | As in the industrial development part, there are about 18, 000 traditional industries in the southern nation, accounting for 22% of the nation. In it, Tainan County has about 6, 135 (statistics to the end of November 2006) factories which ranks fifth in the nation. The main industries include machinery and equipment manufacturing and repairing industry (1,044), the fabricated metal product industry (1, 018), plastic industry (839), transportation industry (394), food and beverage industry (480), textile industry (291), and basic metal industry(283). | |  | |  Industrial area in the county is of 4786.38 hectares | | Factories are mainly located in the five industrial areas: Sinying, Guantian, Yongkang, Baoan, and Sinshih, and in the Rende and Yongkang City territory. | | 
| | Statistics to the end of November 2006 shows that profit organization registration and of firms registered reach a total of 45, 149. The manufacturing industry 7,754, the construction industry 4,461, the wholesale and retail trade industry 24,540. Lodging and Food Industry 1,426, cultural and recreational 1,227, other service industries 2,364 respectively. | | 
| | The former Tainan has its on agriculture, and changed to become the base of the manufacturing industry, and then evolved into the high-tech industrial development areas, all these are results of the many academic institutions’ devotion to research and business development. | | However in recent years, traditional industries in the south are facing market downturn and transformation and upgrading problems. Therefore, the Tainan county government, while on its way of thinking about how regional industries go with the development of the south high-tech park, also looks deep into the small cities and towns in Tainan County, to understand better the regional characteristics of the industries, manufacturers and research and development capabilities and other economic characteristics. It looks forward to, with the industry development strategy of comparative competitive advantages, integrating the high-tech park with the existing resources, by following the internation trend of the development of technology-based industries to give impetus to the overall industrial development of technology, and to finish the international settlement services facilities for science and technology to attract more investment and talented people, so as to enhance the competitiveness of the regional industry in Tainan County, and finally, to stimulate the regional development of the overall industry. |
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