Guadalupe (AO 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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Kao ' f Taiwan is a nation on the more after having success- fully weathered the perils of infancy- In fact, the success story of Taiwan has been so dramatic that she is fast becoming a model for Asian economic development. The gross national product has risen at the rate of 8.291 annually since 1952 and now stands at 53.1 billion. Industrial production has been increasing nearly 14572 a yearp industry on the islana' is four times broader than it was in 1952. Per capita income rising 412575 each year has nearly doubled to 5200. Economic stability was achieved by first re- forming the agricultural base. As the result of an effective land reform program Taiwan's agricultural output is rising 675 a year, and the nation is not only Approaching Kaohsiung. able to feed itself one of the highest-calorie diets in Asia, but has also developed a profitable farm- export market, especially to japan and South Vietnam. Even while improving and increasing agriculture, Taiuan's economists laid long-range - and highly realistic - plans to balance it uith industry. Supported by loans from other nations the Taiwan goifernment set about building industry and improving the intrastructure of railroads, highways and communications on uhich it depends. At the outset, major industries were put under government control, and many of them remain there. Yet for all the huge role that gouernment has played in Taiwan's economic upsurge, private enterprise is strongly encouraged, and in the past five years thegoz'ernment's shareof total industrial output has dropped by 6802 to 31075. Foreign investment is also being drawn to Taiwan. To outsiders, Taiu'an's biggest advantage is inexpensive labor. Minimum wage laws require only 511 a month for unskilled labor, while skilled workers get up to 870 or 580. The rates are only one-third as high as wage levels in japan and half those in Hong Kong. As a result, several Asian companies have moved operations from those areas to Taiuan. Taiwan does haue some economic problems, but so do all prosperous nations. The biggest headache is creating jobs for the 165,000 people who uill enter the labor market every year for a decade. Taiwan must also improve education to overcome shortages of managers and skilled foremen, and solve its brain drain. each year 2,300 students go to the U.S. to attend universities. Few return to Taiwan. Still, the scope of the problems yet to be solved only serves to point up how well the Chinese on Taiwan have done with their economy in the past two decades. Not only have they surz'iL'ed, but they have become a shou-place for the rest of Southeast Asia. And as impressive as the record is on its oun, it takes on even greater proportions when the economy of Taiuan is matched against that of a country only 100 miles away - Communist China. I . l. ' rg-'tint , : 1 In l I 11 I ll 11 q nn aI' 1 I -34 ' ' ' ...V . 214 I . R, P - mu, V, 5-,q,,..,,-. 1 - Q - -v . N' ' 4 A., ' 'u . . 5 PY -U vi -A v. uh ,4,,+.'.w' ,. tv' N' 4 - R' ' . tw-'WWI' -. . - .'..':- .rf fix' -- -' - ' .. ' -3 J -1 M ,.g.-, :5eB'4gq-QQ, fra., .,.,,s.. A 1. mi. . , 1 3- . , fy ' V .1p..rg,g4'f -' - . 5... W k wg ,,g','14'gf '-.- ,N 51 . f- ' '-yr ' f - 2 ' ' '. .5f P! A i ' ' 'FF-'f'::f. 452133. - .QA-g+-... ls .,.,.' v gig? 4.4, , , ki A 21. .wg N: ---.. A ,. i 'Q .. 'X it - 1 M.. 1 1 '-V 2 ' ...-51.',.p-g 'Y was 1' -in-n L ' , , Q.. ' filmx .V K - . M ,M .mn EA J L.,, an -Mug, L. I V, - .. UE, A ,' -, ig A, , . MAQ. - I ew: ,g K . The waterfront,

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