1. Major Projects For Agriculture and Fishery Industries
2. Reinforce agricultural test implementation
3. Ecological agriculture model development
4. Archipelago wild animal and plant resources investigation and conservation
5. Consolidate production and marketing of agricultural and fishery businesses and special product development
6. Forestry development
7. Fishery business development and fry rearing
8. Third phase of fishing port construction

Weak Business Getting Worse
Fishing business is the major traditional industry in Matsu, while Minchiang estuary is also the world famous fishing ground with good reputation of 「Hometown of Yellow Croaker」. However, this flourish ocean is almost exhausted by arbitrarily fish bombing of China fishing boat, meanwhile the fishing population is also decreasing dramatically.

Similarly, subject to the hilly landforms and reduced consumers, the benefit of agriculture is limited, only relying on few elder citizens concurrently engaging in agriculture for living.

Actively Transform to Confront with Market Competition
Looking at easily changeable condition as of Taiwan entering WTOP and oversea pricing competition on agricultural and fishing businesses, Matsu"s agricultural and fishing industries shall actively adjust production organization and supply and demand for production and marketing to cope with market variation. In respect of fishing industry, we suggest orienting to aquaculture development, developing yellow croaker and mussel such high value aquaculture technology and increasing coastal patrol to protect overall fishing ground. As of agriculture, we will promote the intensive agriculture, ecological organic agriculture and develop net house cultivation, water culture, corm flower and red spider lily such plants with highly added value.

Giving Both Considerations Toward Conservation and Research, Production and Development
The practical policy implementation of agricultural and fishing industries in the future will give considerations to both conservation and research, production and marketing, associated with local tourism development to consolidate the development of special agricultural and fishing products and Fuzhou cakes. After implementation over years, we expect that it will hold the vitality of Matsu"s agricultural and fishing production and create high value added product with market competitiveness to increase farmers and fishermen"s incomes.


V.Industrial and Commercial Businesses

Major Projects for Industrial and Commercial Businesses
1. Image business circles in all townships
2. Promote direct sail via selected ports
3. Business operational talent training
4. Open up Fuao special economic and trade district
5. Promote winemaking workshop
6. Wine and retail business is the most representative businesses

Subject to the geographical condition of separated offshore islands, Matsu"s manufacturing business has never been developed. Among them, the winemaking business of Matsu Distillery is with most distinguished feature. Most commercial trading focus on the retailed businesses and restaurants for stationed military consumption, whereas the tourism and service businesses are still not prominent.

Image Business Circle
Attract consumers along with tourism development is the key strategy to inspire the vigorousness of Matsu
industrial and commercial activities. The most urgent thing is to improve the shopping environment, reconstruct Magan, Shanlong, Tangchi, Chinfan and Chungliu such commercial markets as image business circles to greet surging tourists after completion of middle size airports in Nangan and Beigan.

Pearl of East Min in Fuzhou Economic and Trade Circle
It is an alternative thinking of promoting industrial and commercial development by cooperation with variable cross-strait circumstances, properly using Matsu"s regional advantages, developing direct sail through fixed port, transit trade, special economic and trade district. Since Fuzhou is getting prosperous every day, it is no doubt that it will create unlimited future outlook of Matsu by using its geographical network and background of East Min to become the center of Fuzhou economic and trade circle. It is just like Hong Kong"s influence toward South China. This is the physical meaning
for Pearl of East Min.


VI.Land Use and Public Equipment
Major Land Use Projects
1. Establish geographical information system
2. Featured infrastructures for every village
3. Urban design and control
4. Water resource development and conservation
5. Public water supply
6. Sewage system construction
7. Electricity supply improvement
8. Telecommunication improvement
9. Land Reclamation in Jieshou and Auko
10. Complete cadastre registration

Land use is related to the complete set of overall space development of Matsu. Subject to the military control in the past, most offshore islands were under-developed, only Auco and specific military base have more intensive construction.
Because the sea and air transportation of all offshore islands will be improved apparently when the short-term phase is completed. Now, the cadastre registration is competed at first, which helps the construction set of infrastructure and encourages the development of private lands.

Divide Into Development Available and Limited Development Area
Current Matsu"s land use refers to the urban planning control adopted by Taiwan, whereas it created negative effects by over control and therefore cannot attract proper construction development. It will adopt chartered development system in the future, except for partial limited development area separated by ecological sensitive area, other development available area will aim at overall industry , housing, tourism and transportation requirements to map out the growth management method for four townships and five islands and introduce strategic construction development under comprehensive considerations.

Reliable Water, Electricity and Communication Supply
To cooperate with local development in the future, water, electricity and oil supply and communication are all necessary infrastructure. The comprehensive development plan has integrated all related units to add water, electricity and communication equipment required by people"s livelihood and industrial and commercial development every year in accordance with requirements of local development.



VII.Housing and Community

Major Projects in Residence Area
1. Restoration of old buildings
2. Overall community construction
3. Encourage constructing new public housing communities
4. Improve current house purchasing loan
5. Precious assets of east settlement
The east Fujian featured settlement in Matsu is precious asset hard to come by in Taiwan and Fujian regions, which is
also the resources with much potential to develop tourism. Therefore the future orientation is to propose physical
strategies to improve housing and community environment, provided that settlements could be conserved.

Most Houses Fall Into Disuse
In respect of statistic number, the quantity of housing in Matsu region is very high, but they are mostly remaining old house made of rocks and the interior space is too small to the family use, not mention lacking of restroom facilities. Since small family emphasizes more and more on privacy, it is necessary to make projected restoration plan for old building within settlement by introducing craftsman from east Fujian via project to improve interior decoration. We expect to provide it with modern living mechanism, while conserving traditional features of east Fujian settlement on appearances to continue the vitality of settlement.

Overall Community Construction With Features of Each Village
Every village with a estuary is another fun of Matsu settlement. Each village has its own development potential based on its history and industrial tradition. By cooperating with giving new look to all townships and overall community construction promoted by central government, 22 nature villages in Matsu may establish a high quality community with energy and high living availability through participation of residences.


VIII. Transportation
1. Establish Nangan Airport
2. Extension of Peikan Airport"s eastern runway
3. Construct commercial harbor internally
4. Construct Mongwo port in Dongjyu
5. Road improvement plan
6. Increase parking lot spaces of each township
7. Improvement of external connecting transportation for Dachiu, Hsiaochiu Da, Liang Isle and Gaodeng
8. Infrastructure of Matsu information network
9. Sea-crossing bridge between Nangan and Beigan, Dongjyu and Sijyu
10.Transportation is the base of construction

Transportation is the key for offshore development. After Matsu resuming self-governance, the interaction between Taiwan and Matsu was getting closer every day, and the requirement for sea and air transportation is also getting stronger. Subject to the offshore geographical factor, Matsu has bad oceanic conditions in winter and unfavorable conditions for airplanes to take off and landing caused by foggy days in spring and summer and south wind blowing.

All of them obstacle the normal operation of sea and air transportation between Taiwan and Matsu, which not only restrict ordinary medical care, business trip, relative visiting for villages and stationed soldiers, but also impact local tourism development. Therefore, transportation condition improvement is the most important issue to comprehensive development plan.

Sea and Air Transportation Improvement is Just Around the Corner
Regarding sea transportation, domestic harbor plan will have united management and operation in accordance with approval of Executive Yuan in the future. It uses Fuwo port as the center to aggressively develop passenger and cargo transportation, meanwhile taking responsibility of cargo transfer in Fuzhou economic and trade circle depending on cross- strait development.

Concerning the air transportation, the helicopter landing fields of all islands are completed, and the construction of middle size Nangan airport and extension of Beigan airport runway are also in active progress. Then, the volume of air transportation will be increased significantly.


Promote Round-the-Island Highway to All Islands
The practical goal for land transportation improvement is to build round-the-island highway network in all islands, gradually reconstruct the dangerous hills every year, reasonably arrange the marks, signs, parking and sidewalk and emphasize on landscape engineering. In the future, people can expect the united operations of land, sea and air transportation providing residences and tourists with more convenient and comfortable transferring schedule. For the middle-to-long term, we will evaluate and plan to setup sea-crossing bridge between Nangan and Beigan, Dongjyu and Sijyu based on the degree of technological improvement. In the mean time, restructure four townships and five islands as a core living circle (Nangan and Beigan region), two secondary living circle (Dongyin, Siyin, Dongjyu and Sijyu) to balance the construction of all offshore islands.


IX.Environmental Protection
1. Emphasizing on garbage classification and recycling
2. Environmental sanitary protection
3. Drinking water substance and quality protection
4. Marine environment monitoring
5. Air pollution prevention
6. Noise pollution prevention
7. Establish second garbage landfill
8. Guardian of sea area in Minchiang estuary

The land area of Matsu is not big, but is the guardian of broad sea area in Minchiang estuary. Environmental protection is the common consensus of the world. Matsu has full responsibility to reserve this happy land to following generations.

Family and Military Waste are Major Pollution Sources
Present Matsu environment is still good, the major pollution sources are mainly from family and military. The pollution sources of watershed of all reservoirs have also been improved evidently. We will increase the landfill establishment in all townships and negotiate with Matsu defense department to improve military garage clearance and processing. In addition, the sewage system of all settlements in Matsu have not yet been established, therefore the sewage is drained into the reservoir, ocean and underground water. Thus, we will also invest on sewage system and processing equipment for settlements with focused population.

Carry Out Total Pollution Sources Control
Operation continuation is the ultimate goal of promoting Matsu"s environmental protection. In the future, we will gradually carry out the environment monitoring through total pollution sources control to restrict polluted substances importing based on the environmental loading of each offshore island. We also encourage public to promote garbage reduction and resources recycling to allow environmental protection is fully integrated with daily life.

1. Emphasizing on garbage classification and recycling
2. Environmental sanitary protection
3. Drinking water substance and quality protection
4. Marine environment monitoring
5. Air pollution prevention
6. Noise pollution prevention
7. Establish second garbage landfill
8. Guardian of sea area in Minchiang estuary

The land area of Matsu is not big, but is the guardian of broad sea area in Minchiang estuary. Environmental protection is the common consensus of the world. Matsu has full esponsibility to reserve this happy land to following generations.

Family and Military Waste are Major Pollution Sources
Present Matsu environment is still good, the major pollution sources are mainly from family and military. The pollution sources of watershed of all reservoirs have also been improved evidently. We will increase the landfill establishment in all townships and negotiate with Matsu defense department to improve military garage clearance and processing. In addition, the sewage system of all settlements in Matsu have not yet been established, therefore the sewage is drained into the reservoir, ocean and underground water. Thus, we will also invest on sewage system and processing equipment for settlements with focused population.

Carry Out Total Pollution Sources Control
Operation continuation is the ultimate goal of promoting Matsu"s environmental protection. In the future, we will gradually carry out the environment monitoring through total pollution sources control to restrict polluted substances importing based on the environmental loading of each offshore island. We also encourage public to promote garbage reduction and resources recycling to allow environmental protection is fully integrated with daily life.


X.Tourism Development
1. Setup Travel Service Center
2. Develop coastal tour vacation
3. Build tour hotel via private investment
4. Subcontract operation for scenic spots
5. Solicit travel business featured with combat readiness
6. Round-the-island lantern festival
7. Striving for establishing national scenic area
8. With potential of national scenic area


Tourism is the priority of strategic industry must be introduced to Matsu, which is not polluted, employment driven and beneficial to public income. The unique island landscape, marine resources, battlefield scenery, east Fujian settlement and Fuzhou gourmet food are all with potential to become national scenic area.

The Tourism Construction Giving Both Considerations of Software and Hardware
After the normalization of political warfare, Matsu"s tourism is not developed as vigorous as Kinmen by the limitation of inconvenient transportation between Taiwan and Matsu. Therefore, Matsu will focus on the enhancement of software and hardware related to tourism, including hotels, restaurants, descriptions and scenic spot development of all islands. We will make sure to show high quality tourism service combined with unique Matsu travel resources.

Striving for Setup Professional Tourism Organizations
For the continuation development of tourism, not only we must have hardware construction, but also have to continuously solicit businessmen for investment, make tour promotion and operational management. They all need professional tourism organizations to moving forward. Seeing the lack of professional talents and organizational limitation of county government, the comprehensive development plan suggests striving for establishing national scenic areas under support of professional team assigned by central government to assist Matsu"s tourism development. Besides, we will also study feasible delegated operation rules to encourage private participating in local scenery development and management.


XI.Social Welfare
1. Improve funeral and interment facilities
2. Establish comprehensive Welfare Park
3. Setup women welfare service center
4. Subsidy for house restoration of middle-to-low income households
5. Strengthen nursing care
6. Welfare requirements increase significantly

After resuming self-governance, the level of social welfare was improved evidently. All township residences are entitled to many systematic welfare measures as in Taiwan.

The aroused welfare consciousness of public relatively increases the social welfare requirements.

The Most Completed Senior Welfare
The welfare groups in Matsu include seniors, infants, youths, women, labors and disabled. Now the senior welfare development is most completed. There is senior activity center established in each village, senior allowances for people over 65 years old with household registered and children"s and senior citizen"s home providing solitary senior with nursing service in Chishuei, Nangan. Only the private resources in Matsu is not as much as in Taiwan, the social welfare can only rely on limited employees of Civil Affairs Bureau, which is unable to efficiently integrate the private force for mutual development and therefore become a major issue of social welfare development.

Welfare Service Community and Network Promotion
Perfect social welfare relies on the mutual cooperation between government and private institutes. Welfare service by community is the key point for future development. All islands in Matsu have trained appropriate social workers to provide public with necessary welfare services, such as emergency aid, solitary senior nursing. Meanwhile, the online welfare delivery system is also developed to send social welfare to welfare required subjects through private institutes and enthusiastic volunteers. The Children"s And Senior Citizen"s Home will be transformed toward comprehensive welfare facilities in the future, providing shielding and rehabilitation functions for abused children, raped women and youths with deviant behavior to handle more diversified welfare requirements of Matsu society.



XII.Health and Medical Treatment
Major Medical Treatment Projects
1. Continuously promote national health care
2. Consolidate medical personnel training and continuing education
3. Improvement of health office equipment
4. Local military hospital support overall medical system
5. Development of visual medical treatment
6. Establish emergency rescue system
7. Severe disabled senior nursing and mental health care
8. The biggest problem is lack of medical personnel

The first priority of medical development is human resources, but it is seriously insufficient of medical forces in Matsu now and therefore relies on partial support by military doctors, including county hospital and offshore health offices. Therefore, before recommended medical students coming back for practices, Matsu has to continuously seek for the support of doctors from Taiwan educational hospitals and normalized support by military doctors to supplement medical aid capacity in Matsu and satisfy 90% basic medical requirement of county citizens.

Improve Public"s Health by Health Care and Illness Prevention
Health care will not be satisfied only by disease treatment, it shall also include improving public"s health.
Therefore, we believe that continuously promoting public health care plan, healthy and balanced food and life and regularly medical diagnosis for community households all will benefit public"s physical and mental health and prolong their average life.

Strengthen Emergency Rescue to Avoid Injury and Death
The inconveniences of Matsu"s offshore transportation stress the urgency of emergency medical care as encountering serious injury and diseases. County government plan to strive for regular stationed helicopters in Matsu to support mobile shuttle required by offshore emergency medical care, shorten the shipping time and prevent from worsen conditions. In addition, we will also integrate the medical affair, social affair, police affair and fire fighting forces and mobilize local public and private group to mutually organize emergency medical team to provide emergency medical care services.



XIII.Education

Major Education Projects
1. Develop long distance education
2. Install software and hardware of educational network
3. Promote information education
4. Integrate junior high and elementary school with community
5. Add sports and leisure facilities for all townships
6. Build Nangan indoor swimming pool
7. Protect educational right of remote areas

Everyone has the right to receive education, which will be proscribed by Matu"s remote position. Instead, Matsu shall be provided with more independent and special protection because congenital deficiency of resources and special local nature and culture. In recent years, Matsu has developed open education, information education, local teaching material and therefore gives new life to local education.

We expect that Matsu"s education will be on the thriving hand by cooperating with a series of education revolutionary measures made by Ministry of Education.

Model of Small Class and School
Matsu may be called the first model of small class and school in Taiwan and Min regions. In average, each teacher of Matsu"s junior and elementary school has 7 students, so teachers and students plus schools and communities all interactive perfectly. Our future educational orients to obtain the goal of life education and develop four major abilities of public:
1. Ability of continuous study; 2. Key ability of work; 3. Ability to get along with others and resolve disputes for being community, national and global citizens;4. Ability to fully develop self-potential.



XIV.Culture
Major Culture Projects
1. Build Folklore Culture Museum
2. Culture interflow between Taiwan and Matsu
3. Add exhibition and performance facilities of all townships
4. Consolidate culture interflow of east Min
5. East Min folklore artistry inheritance
6. Assigned memorial buildings
7. Unique east min culture

Most matsu immigrates come from coastal of Mainland China, so folk living customs still hold unique sense of east min, which can accumulate precious cultural properties no matter from language, housing, food and drink or religion perspectives and become the glory of Matsu people. For culture development in the future, on the one hand is how to make Matsu culture active, create the self-examination and vitality of new culture, on the other hand is how to conserve Matsu"s traditional culture, including barbarous area cultivation, tithing system, defense and political warfare such phases.

Unique Feature of Primitive Animism
Religion is a major power of comprising Matsu settlement culture. The magnitude of deity grand scale religious parade on January 15th of every year is very spectacular,many villagers of Taiwan all especially return hometown for attendance that form the unique scenery and features of isle cultures. The goal of Matsu culture development is on the basis of mutual community and living to create abundance of diversified and autonomy culture by cultural strength on private"s initiative.

Dynamic Conservation of Historical Culture
The developing process of Matsu is very turbulent, and therefore culture reservation demands immediate attention. One of physical short-term plan is to establish Matsu folkore Culture Museum. From system perspective, we consider to set Lienchiang culture center, literature committee and east min culture interflow foundation such normal organizations, specially manage culture reservation and interchange, meanwhile combining private cultural group and organizations voluntarily initiated by private to systematically and sequentially conserve features of Matsu history and cultural. We expect to consolidate the interflow among Taiwan, East Min and even the whole world by using Matsu as central to animate entire private vitality.
Finance and Local Administration

XV.Finance and Local Administration
Major Finance and Local Administration Projects
1. Promote distillery privatization
2. Strengthen tax audit and levy
3. Establish oil storage facilities in four townships and five islands
4. Establish administrative information system
5. Prepare for intellectual tank for local administration
6. Enhance employee on-the-job training
7. E-government
8. The key of implementing local self-governance

Public finance and local administration are the key to duly implement local self-governance. However, since most Matsu"s local systems came from political warfare period, meanwhile the offshore development is always insufficient and government system is lack of comprehensive consideration toward offshore islands, the development of Matsu is therefore obstructed.


Rely on Central Government"s Financial Aid
Since Matsu is located on remote island with limited economic scale, self finance is very restricted for a long time, local finance are mostly from subsidies of central or province government. After the normalization of political warfare, all software and hardware construction were developed by acceleration, making local annual income and expenditure grow rapidly. Looking into future, Matsu"s local finance still focus on increasing and reducing expenditure. In respect of increasing income, we emphasize on levy of local tax, reorganize tax-free financial resources, plus striving for institutionalizing feedback from military, public enterprise and large business. Regarding of expenditure reducing, we suggest orienting to the operational concept of commercial government, delegating partial administrative businesses to private operation, encouraging public to participate public construction to reduce personnel burden of government.


Complete Administrative System to Enhance Quality of Talent
Local administration is closely to the performance of construction and development. Since Matsu"s islands are separated, poor manpower, deficient professional talents and lack of on-the-job training channel such limitations, therefore the administrative quality is unable to enhance greatly. To cope with requirement of future development, the most urgent thing for Lienchiang Governem now is to establish complete administrative system, and provide sufficient incentives and protection to encourage employee for advanced study and talent recruitment and thus enhance county government"s policy implementation quality.


XVI.Police Affairs and Fire Fighting
Major Projects of Police Affairs and Fire Fighting
1. Add fire-fighting facilities
2. Reconstruct basic and functional offices of police station
3. Establish computer terminal inquiry system
4. Police office automation
5. The dramatic change of public security after the normalization of political warfare

Police affairs and fire fighting department combine social security and public safety, which are very close to public"s daily living environment. The public security in Matsu area is good all along. As early as political warfare period, the community relationships are very close, and illegal events are rarely found. After resuming self-governance in recent years, Matsu"s public security is getting complicated by removal of access control, dramatic change of local self-governance, society and public security changed along with long coastal line, broad sea area and frequent oceanic dealing.

Deficient Arrangement in Police Affair Organization
The organizational arrangement of Lienchiang police station is not complete and the number of policemen is few.
There is no criminal police team established in police head office, while police officers spread all over four townships and five islands,therefore it is unable to integrate and elaborate better effect on police force. Thus the first priority is to rearrange organization (e.g. add traffic team), expand prescribed personnel, recruit new policemen and strive for acquiring 7th police squad to station at Matsu area to consolidate sea area security keeping.

Expand Fire Fighting Equipment and Organizational Manpower
Uncompleted fire fighting facilities and weak conscious of private fire control constitute potential treat toward Matsu people"s living and properties. There is no fire land planned in Matsu collected settlement and shopping street in neighborhood, therefore it usually results in disaster by fire occurrence. Thus, expand fire fighting equipment and establish fire control organizations are keys of Matsu fire control improvement from system perspective.

In the future, all islands will add fire reservoir on crest line and replace water-piping system for fire control and reinforce private fire drill practice to reduce losses caused by injury and death.

XVII.Promotion and Implementation

Three Phases Implementation In Middle to Long Term
The value of every plan focuses on implementation. Lienchiang comprehensive development will be implemented through short, middle to long term three phases since 2000 after planning over years, meanwhile promoting the overall development and construction in accordance with implementation of offshore island construction act carried out by central government.
The rough estimation of expenditure for 12 years is around thirty-three billions dollars.

Development Goal in Phases
The goals of comprehensive development plan in different phases include short-term goal (2000 to 2003) is to develop airport, domestic commercial port, road, water source, electricity and telecommunication and tourism constructions; middle goal (2003 to 2007) is promote high class vacation base, medical upgrade and strengthen interchange of east min cultural and economics; long term (2008 to 2011) goal orient to be the distribution center of Fuzhou economic circle and marine resource operation center of Minchiang estuary.

Strategic Adjustable Development
Comprehensive development plan is the instructive plan for local construction. Observing the variable cross-strait conditions, Matsu really has extensive developing pattern. Therefore, the key oint of short term comprehensive plan stress on infrastructure and public welfare enhancement, which is the sound base for local development to dynamically control the moment of later development. Only the plan relies on cooperation of government and public, emphasizing on public involvement in process. Production of simple and clear version is to draw the outline of Matsu"s future to enhance common consensus of villagers and all circles toward Matsu"s development and obtain more resources to mutually reconstruct Matsu.


Data Source:Lienchiang County Government