A. Employment Structure

Labor was in short supply and there was a great demand for engineers and technicians thanks to the flourishing development of labor-intensive industries. The proportion of the nation's workforce employed in industry had jumped to 42.4% by 1980, whereas services had risen to 38.1% and agriculture dropped to 19.5% of the workforce.

B. Major Industries and Products; Key Technologies

---Emphasis was placed on the growth of both light and heavy industries.

---The development of the second phase of import-replacement industries led to the domestic production of industrial raw materials and components. Examples include steel, copper, aluminum, shipbuilding, automobiles, motorcycles, ethylene, propylene, plastics, and synthetic fibers.

---Notable export products during the seventies included umbrellas, sunglasses, and Christmas tree lights.

---Industrial output increased annually by an average of 13.5% throughout the seventies.

---New agricultural products included Kaochieh pears, Black Pearl cloud apples, grapes that could be harvested three-times annually, black bream, catfish, milkfish, red-tailed shrimp, and Tamsui big-foot shrimp.

C. Power Generation

---Nuclear power began supplementing thermally-generated power after 1977.

D. Major Transportation Projects

---The Northern Connecting Railway was completed and began service in 1980.

---The Southern Cross-Island Highway, the Eastern Coastal Highway and the Sun Yat-sen Freeway were completed.

---The north-south Sun Yat-sen Freeway was opened to traffic along its entire length in 1978.

---The Highway Bureau began using Kuokuang busses on the Taipei-Kaohsiung route.

---Construction of Keelung Harbor's inner and outer harbor was completed; a second port at Kaohsiung Harbor was opened to shipping.

---Shipping and wharf facilities entered the containerized age. The Yangming Marine Transport Corporation began regular containerized shipments along the R.O.C.-U.S. route.

---CKS International Airport was completed and began service in 1979.