A National Taiwan University of Science and Technology official has promised to push a proposal for personnel training and other exchange projects with Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Region after a meeting with the region’s trade and investment representative last week.
The university’s vice president, Lee Duu-jong (李篤中), said that given Taiwan’s declining birth rate, tertiary institutes in the nation are under pressure to find markets for their educational resources.
Myanmar’s vast, untapped human resources, which are needed to develop the country’s economy, offer a good opportunity for universities like Lee’s to find a market value for its expertise, Ayeyarwady Region Government representative Aung Pe Than said.
He arrived in Taipei on June 19 for a seven-day visit, seeking to expand not just his region’s, but Myanmar’s trade and investment ties with Taiwan.
Taiwan is “totally different from” China, a country he has been dealing with for more than 20 years, he said.
“Look at the way people here act, the polite way they talk, the clean streets, the tidy stores in which we shop... I think your country is totally different from China,” he told the Central News Agency (CNA) on Tuesday last week.
He said he welcomes Lee and other school officials to visit Myanmar to see for themselves the areas for potential mutually beneficial cooperation programs, which he thinks would be very feasible.
Aung said he was impressed with the university’s record of producing high-achieving engineers and other professionals.
Lee said he would soon present a concrete proposal for implementing several cooperation projects with the Ayeyarwady Region — which includes the delta of the Ayeyarwady River, bordering the Yangon Region to the east and the Bay of Bengal to the south and west.
With a population of 6.5 million, Ayeyarwady is Myanmar’s most populous region, but it remains largely undeveloped.
Myanmar has reportedly approved a “special development zone” in Ayeyarwady for Taiwanese capital and human-resources investments.
Myanmar plans to “build a brand new city” at the national level in the proposed special zone that would include roads, factories, an airport, sea ports and even a nuclear power plant, according to sources familiar with the project.
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