New Ten Major Construction Projects

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The New Ten Major Construction Projects (traditional Chinese: 新十大建設) refers to the construction plans in Taiwan introduced by then-premier Yu Shyi-kun in November 2003.

[edit] List of the projects

Top universities and research centers
- Goal: to have at least 15 major graduate school ranked number 1 in Asia in 5 years; to get at least one college ranked one of the top 100 colleges of the world in 10 years.

International arts and popular music centers
- Northern Taiwan: Greater Taipei New Theater (大台北新劇院;計畫興建於板橋新站特定區內)
- Central Taiwan: Taichung Metropolitan Opera House (臺中大都會歌劇院;計畫興建於臺中市七期重劃區內)
- Southern Taiwan: Kaohsiung National Arts Cultural Center (高雄國家藝術文化中心;計畫興建於高雄鳳山衛武營)

M-Taiwan plan
- Goal: to build a world-class internet service environment, and become the third trillion-dollar communication industrial development.

Taiwan exhibition
- Goal: to exhibit Taiwan's creativity and vigor, and prompt the development of technology, tourism, and culture.

台鐵捷運化：配合高鐵通車，透過增站、增班、高架化、地下化，將台鐵轉型為都會及區域捷運，讓台鐵轉型再生，並帶動沿線都市更新。

Freeway constructions
- Goal: to develop tourist attraction areas such as Yilan, Hualien, Taitung, and Nantou; to facilitate the everyday life circle; to expand the highway network.

Kaohsiung Harbor intercontinental container port center
- Goal: to construct a new intercontinental container port for 15,000 TEU container ships; improve the transport ability of the Kaohsiung port.

Northern, central, and southern metro system
- Goal: to plan and construct a total of 182 km of metro routes; to improve the rapid transit systems in metropolitan areas of northern, central, and southern Taiwan.