Kaohsiung City Mayor, Chen, Chu was invited by the State Council to pay a visit to U.S. at the 14th of February. In a total of 14 days, this trip was set from Feb 14th to 27th. In addition to the visit to the United States House of Representatives and the Department of Homeland Security, Chen gave a public speech focusing on the topics “The drifting Taiwan” and “The challenge of democracy” in the New York Taiwan Center. Later on......

For and assisted to process in effectively immediately the outlet area the manufacturer to cross the management difficult position, the ministry of economic affairs processed the outlet area administrative office to decide halved the collection the management fee, the period was one year......

The Kaohsiung Municipal government Metropolis Development Bureau to facilitate the industry to stop over invests in Kaohsiung, the enterprise project the land use project makes regarding “the free trade port district establishment act of administration” with “the metropolis plan law Kaohsiung rules of procedure” passes the document to recognize that causes the central committee to obtain the consistent correspondence with the local code and regulation......

The Executive Yuan to strengthen serves south local populace, to promote the region to develop balanced and to be coordinated the place important construction, by chief instructed that establishes “south the Executive Yuan in Kaohsiung to unite the service center”, and it’s started to operate on June 1st,1998........