Premier Jiang Yi-huah instructs active improvement and upgrading of tourism development in the Hualien area

(Taiwan Business News) When Premier Jiang Yi-huah inspected the Central Cross-Island Highway on Provincial Highway 8 and the rockfall situation at Taroko in Hualien County on June 28, he stated that tourism is Hualien's most important industry, and the central government has already allocated funds to carry out road improvement and the Jiuqudong open-cut tunnel remediation project, which will be completed in August 2015, at which time it can be provided for recreational use and will be of certain help to tourism development in the Hualien area.

This inspection of the rockfall problems along the Central Cross-Island Highway and in Taroko National Park in the Hualien area was attended throughout by Hualien County Magistrate Fu Kun-chi, Minister of Transportation and Communications Yeh Kuang-shih, Directorate General of Highways Director-General Chao Hsing-hua, Environmental Protection Administration Director-General Wei Kuo-yen, and Minister of the Interior Chen Wei-zen; the contents of this inspection included projects along the Central Cross-Island Highway, the Yanzikou rockfall protection project, the Taroko tribal culture highlight at the Bulowan Recreation Area, and projects related to tourism development in the Little Central Cross-Island area (linking the Datong and Dali tribes, the Taroko Visitor Center, the Shakadang Recreation Area, and the Changchun Shrine Recreation Area). All should focus on the long-term development of the Hualien area and the nation; construction beneficial to local tourism development and safety, local economic prosperity, and social development must be actively carried out, and attention must be paid to environmental protection, so as to meet the expectations of the people of Hualien.