摘要
On January 5, 1995 the Executive Yuan (“EY”), which serves as the cabinet of the Republic of China (“ROC” or “Taiwan”), accepted the recommendation of its Council for Economic Planning and Development (“CEPD”) and adopted the Plan for Developing Taiwan as an Asia-Pacific Regional Operations Center (“APROC Plan” or “Plan”) after two years of external and internal studies by the CEPD and the Ministry of Economic Affairs (“MOEA”). Premier Lien Chan labeled the Plan a “cross-century initiative” that, according to President Lee Teng-hui, would “completely transform Taiwan’s economy.” In short, the APROC Plan presents the most daunting task for economic policy makers in Taiwan for the decade beginning in 1995. While in one sense the Plan is merely a continuation of Taiwan’s gradual economic liberalization begun in the 1950’s, the Plan will take on critical significance in the next century as Taiwan ambitiously prescribes more complete and expeditious reforms through a massive overhaul of laws and regulations.3 Much of the Plan reflects Taiwan’s strategic thinking on fully integrating itself with the global economy, and thereby resolving its difficult political stalemate with the People’s Republic of China (“PRC” or “China”), upgrading its industrial and business environment, streamlining government bureaucracy, and improving relations between state and society in Taiwan.