Minister of Economic Affairs Chen Li-an mentioned on April 10, for example, that the ROC is striving toward rising new industries that are knowledge intensive in the hopes of achieving its goal of making Taiwan into a high-tech island at an early date.
經濟部長陳履安四月十日在圓山飯店舉行的一九八九年國際鋼鐵協會特別理事會議中，便向全球廿八家最大鋼鐵企業負責人表示，我國將致力腦力密集的新興產業，期使台灣成為「科技島」的目標早日實現。