Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park

The Hsinchu Science Park (Chinese: 新竹科學工業園區; Hanyu Pinyin: Xīnzhú Kēxué Gōngyè Yuánqū; Tongyong Pinyin: Sīnjhú Kēsyué Gōngyè Yuáncyū) is an industrial park established by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) on December 15, 1980 to foster scientific and technological development. It straddles Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County in Taiwan.

The idea of the establishment of Hsinchu Science Park was first proposed by Wenzhounese mathematician Shu Shien-Siu, the former president of National Tsing Hua University and Prime Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology in 1976. After Siu became the Prime Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology in 1973, Siu for many times traveled to the United States, Europe, Japan, and South Korea to learn and study their conditions of the development of science and technology. In 1976, as the prime minister of ministry of science and technology, Siu came up with the idea of building a science and technology park like that of Silicon Valley in Taiwan. After Siu's idea of establishing a science and technology park in Taiwan, rounds of debate unfolded between him and Chiang Ching-kuo about the location of the park.Chiang Ching-kuo 's idea was to build the park in Longtan District because of the potential future benefits that could be drawn from National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology and the military. However, Siu argued that the technology and science park should not be close to the military as the primary goal of the founding of the park is to expand the size of private economy and creative vitality of Taiwan. Siu's idea was to build the park in Hsinchu, the city where the park ended up getting built in because Siu wanted to build the park next to the National Tsing Hua University and National Chiao Tung University like the Silicon Valley of the United States, which is adjacent to Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley.