Introduction to Taiwan

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1. Slide 1: What does the earth Look like?
2. Slide 2: The earth is Circular
3. Slide 3: Introduction to…..
4. Slide 4: TAIWAN
5. Slide 8: Area: about 1/5 the area of Washington State Language: Mandarin Chinese is the official language, but Taiwanese is also spoken by many Currency: New Taiwan(NT) Dollar (exchange rate ranging from NT$32~33 : US$1)
6. Slide 9: Time Zone: GMT + 8 hours (no daylight saving), 13hrs ahead of Cincinnati. Climate: Subtropical (16.6° C (62° F) in December and 26.6° C (80° F) in July with an average humidity of 82%). 20° C is cold!!!
7. Slide 10: Culture: 2. Mostly from China 3. Once governed by Japan between WWI and WWII. 4. Mutual Defense Treaty between the USA and ROC during Cold War. Sports: Baseball Taekwondo
8. Slide 12: Capital: Taipei Population: 21.6 million (about 4 times the population of Washington State) Major Cities: Taipei (2.6 million), Kaohsiung (1.4 million), Taichung (876,000), Tainan (711,000)
9. Slide 17: Height Ran Sto- k Building, city Year ries m ft 1. Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan 2004 101 508 1,667 2. Petronas Tower 1, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1998 88 452 1,483 3. Petronas Tower 2, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1998 88 452 1,483
10. Slide 19: Description: Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon- laden sea, with virtually no natural resources- nothing but the energy, ambition, and talent of its own people-and today it has the third-largest financial reserves in the world. By Thomas L Fridman, “The World is Flat”
11. Slide 20: Economics: Located on the major traffic route in Southeast Asia, Taiwan has a small- scale island economy. Foreign trade has been the major element of Taiwan’s economic development.
12. Slide 21: Economics: (Continue…) Over the past 50 years, Taiwan has developed from an agriculturally- based economy into a high-tech economic force..
13. Slide 22: In Business Week Jul 3rd. '06 ed. titled the \"Godfather of Innovation\", they had this ranking of Information Technology 100,
14. Slide 24: In which listed 13 companies from Taiwan including Hon-Hai Precision Ind. listed in the 2nd and Hi Tech Computer listed in 3rd.
15. Slide 26: Hon-Hai Precision Ind. Taiwan's leading electronics company is focusing on what it does best: producing handsets, PCs, and all sorts of computer parts and components. Hi Tech Computer, The world's leading producer of smart phones operating on Windows software You think Dell vs. Hewlett-Packard is the hottest rivalry in the PC world? Another battle is heating up in Asia. Taiwan's Acer, the world's No. 4 PC maker, The world's biggest producer of motherboards for PCs. Also produces laptops from http://www.businessweek.com/it100/2006/
16. Slide 27: Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. One of the most famous bicycle manufacturing company in the world. AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), a worldwide top 3 manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels (TFT-LCD)
17. Slide 29: So what does the earth look like now?
18. Slide 30: Circular? or… FLAT?