More than 10,000 Employment Gold Cards have been issued since 2018, President William Lai (賴清德) announced today, as he vowed to keep developing a friendly environment in Taiwan for international talent.
Lai made the remarks during an event at the Presidential Office to mark the occasion attended by Gold Card recipients.
The nation should recruit talent from around the world to internationalize Taiwan and globalize Taiwanese businesses, he said.
Photo courtesy of the Presidential Office
Lai touted his efforts to establish the Gold Card after becoming premier in 2017 to make residence, employment, education, healthcare and taxes easier for foreign professionals.
The first card was issued to YouTube cofounder Steve Chen (陳士駿) in March 2018.
By September 2020, the government had issued 1,000, marked by another event at the Presidential Office.
At today’s event, Lai issued Gold Cards to Rakuten system security team founder Yoshinari Fukumoto, Digital Self Labs founder and CEO Linda Jeng (鄭雯文), East Asia Super League chief commercial officer Mark Fischer and Micron Taiwan corporate vice president Lu Donghui (盧東暉).
As the era of smart technologies has arrived, Lai said he believes that the world’s challenges are Taiwan’s opportunity.
Welcoming international talent can make Taiwan more competitive while making the nation an ideal place to live and work, he said.
The president vowed to keep fostering a friendly environment for global talent and called for more international recruiting to make good use of their experience in building Taiwan.
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