Mysterious note exposed: Tsai Ing-wen and TSMC 19 years ago story

Former legislator Huang Shizhuo announced on the 11th a note written by President Tsai Ing-wen 19 years ago, and stressed that “it is this mysterious note that preserves the protector of the country’s sacred mountain, TSMC.

TSMC stock continues to rise today, up to 597, a record high, and the crowd is optimistic that it will break 700 in the short term, but TSMC has created more good news than that. After it entered Nanke to set up a factory, the surrounding housing prices and population have significantly lifted, changing the Shanhua district of Tainan City and creating a small town miracle. In addition, former Green Committee member Huang Shizhuo exposed a note written by President Tsai Ing-wen on Facebook 19 years ago, and stressed that it was Tsai Ing-wen, then head of the Land Commission, who saved TSMC, the “sacred mountain of protection”!

TSMC to set up a factory in Nanke “protect the sacred mountain” to build a town miracle

The East Sen News reports that TSMC, known as the “sacred mountain of protection”, has created many miracles, including the establishment of a factory in Nanke, which has significantly boosted the surrounding housing prices and population. Financial expert Lai Hsien-ching recently shared on the East Coast financial program “This! It is not news”, Tainan Science and Technology has become a big city of technology, TSMC has created a miracle of the surrounding towns, for example, has become the emerging egg yolk district of Tainan City, Shanhua District, is in 10 years from the previous only 20,000, 30,000 population, an increase of 16.6%, and in 2019 more than 50,000 people, and TSMC also led the major chain stores including Starbucks, McDonald’s, gyms, etc. to move in one after another, even Originally few people around the train station, also opened one after another five financial control banks, built a building, and now a ping at least 250,000.

As for Liantanli in Shanhua District, which is called “Taiji Village”, since the transformation of Siraya Avenue into LM Special Zone in Nanke, every building is a new house, and a house used to be available for $5 million, but now it starts at $15 million. The average income is 1.687 million yuan, ranking 6th among the top 10 richest li in Taiwan, and the only li on the list that is not located in Hsinchu.

TSMC from 2021 onwards a substantial salary adjustment of 20%, in the 3 nanometer mass production, TSMC will be in Nanke to recruit 20,000 employees, is expected to generate 170,000 jobs; many domestic and foreign large factories followed TSMC into Nanke, including Aisle (ASML), “crane king” Qide lifting company, etc., the future will make great contributions to the economy of Tainan.

In addition, TSMC shares continue to rise, today to continue the trend of climbing higher, early trading reached 593 yuan, up to 597, a new record price, market value climbed to 15.37 trillion yuan. The three major corporations have bought more than 58,000 in the past 10 days, and will hold a legal conference on the 14th, and all of them predict that TSMC will report good news, so they have raised their target prices.

TSMC has become one of the indicator manufacturers after setting up a factory in the Tainan Park of the Southern Science Park.

Huang Shizhuo: 19 years ago Tsai Ing-wen wrote the old note to preserve the protection of the sacred mountain TSMC

The former legislator Huang Shizhuo posted on Facebook on the 11th to show a mysterious note from 19 years ago, and said, “It is this mysterious note that preserves the protection of the sacred mountain TSMC”, and “call on Taiwan should be as soon as possible to establish the “Technology Protection Act”.

Huang Shizhuo said that the cold spell came, nestled in the home to organize old things, found this one let him both surprised and happy old note in 2002. This note was drafted by him and transcribed by Tsai Ing-wen, who was the chairman of the Land Commission at the time. He said the memo was brief, the president’s handwriting was beautiful, and it was this little note that “blocked the overwhelming calls for Taiwan’s semiconductor factories to set up factories in China at the time and slowed down TSMC’s progress in setting up factories in China, which led to today’s Taiwan’s protection of the country’s sacred mountain.”

Huang Shizhuo said, TSMC is now the world’s semiconductor town, loved by the public, known as the protector of the sacred mountain, the stock price rose to 580 yuan last week, but now people may not know that Taiwan’s semiconductor industry had a thrilling past, he, the president and many democratic predecessors who guarded Taiwan, but also with the story of life to defend the semiconductor industry.

Huang Shizhuo said, Taiwan after the 1990s of the emergency, former President Chen Shui-bian took office, changed to “active and open, effective management” attitude, to improve cross-strait economic and trade relations. The then Minister of Economic Affairs Lin Xinyi took the initiative to open three 8-inch fabs to China within three years, and there is a follow-up open plan. This news made the KMT and the pro-democracy party, which had the majority of seats in the National Assembly, happy. The KMT shouted the slogan “Please let go of the government and let wafers go”, and used induced polls to conclude that “people are against political interference in the economy”. “The public supports the eight-inch fab to China” news, which made the DPP government just took office can not stand.

Huang Shizhuo said that at that time, there were not many 12-inch fabs in the world, and 8-inch fabs were still the lifeblood of foundries, and TSMC’s first 12-inch fab, Nanke VI, had only recently entered mass production. The Chinese Communist authorities were determined to develop the semiconductor business and to seize Taiwan’s capital, equipment, talent and technology by hook or by crook. However, when the ROC government took the initiative to open the 8-inch factory to invest in China, it decided to use the power of the National Assembly, the Taiwan Federation and social forces to block it.

Huang Shizhuo said that he and his father brewed Congress and social forces to visit the business people who opposed the fab to China, and obtained a lot of valuable information, proving that Lin Xinyi deceived the top with false information, not only to influence high-level decision-making, but also mislead the government’s perception of the opening of the fab, and inverted some manufacturers to obtain confidential government information and prepare to go to China in advance, resulting in the hearts of the Taiwan foundry industry, fearing that they will never catch up.

Huang Shizhuo said, TUF in March 5, 2002 by the chairman of the Huang main text held in the executive meeting, in the executive meeting resolved to oppose 8-inch wafer fabs to invest in China, and put forward a report to emphasize that the reasons for opposing investment in China are three: First, the main force of the foundry industry is 8-inch fabs, Taiwan’s 8-inch fab yield up to 95%, is the world’s most sophisticated technology, but China’s overall wafer yield is not up to 50% Secondly, 8-inch fabs are the largest industry in Taiwan in terms of output value and are an indicator to guide Taiwan’s economy. The ITRI report says that if the fabs are opened in 2003, the output value will be reduced by more than 100 billion yuan, and by 2005, it will be reduced by 210 billion yuan. Finally, the U.S. controls the transfer of technology below 0.25 microns, but Taiwan’s technology can already reach below 0.13 microns, and if Taiwan’s technology moves out to China, it may affect Taiwan-U.S. technology exchanges.

Huang Shizhuo said that they held press conferences for three consecutive days to explain the current national crisis, if TSMC and UMC’s 8-inch wafer fab moved to China, will drive the development of China’s semiconductor industry, and the clustering effect of the technology industry will be moved from the Hsinchu Science Park to China, until after the massive loss of funds and talent, Taiwan’s industry will be hollowed out; today, the report at the time was completely in the evil consequences of industrial out-migration.

Huang Shizhuo said that they actively mobilized and protested at that time. On March 12, 2002, TUF invited the Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council Tsai Ing-wen, Minister of Justice Chen Ding-nan and policy pusher Lin Hsin-yi to attend a breakfast meeting, but Lin refused to attend, so they wanted to raise pressure on Lin and decided to lead a protest to the Legislative Yuan on March 22. The then Executive President You Xi-kun said that a decision on whether to open the plant would be made by the end of March.

Huang Shizhuo said that many public opinion had vilified them as a “backward camp that hinders the economy” and that Chairman Chang Chung-Mou was also anxious that TSMC would lose the first opportunity, but he still responded, “If the government enters, it enters; if the government withdraws, it withdraws; we cooperate with everything.” Huang Shizhuo believes that he is respectable entrepreneur.

Huang said that on March 17, 2002, he had a confidential closed-door meeting with his father, Executive President You Shyi-kun, Chairman of the Land Commission Tsai Ing-wen, and Secretary General of the Executive Yuan Li Ying-yuan, and proposed three major conditions at the meeting, including that investment in China should adopt the “one-for-one model”; the government must enact the The government must enact the “Technology Industry Protection Act” to achieve an effective management mechanism; the government must severely punish those who steal away from the industry and implement an effective management mechanism. When he handed the draft to Tsai Ing-wen, she proposed to draw up the government house version of the memorandum in accordance with the conditions acceptable to the Executive Yuan and give it to us (Huang Shizhuo) to keep, to show that the government house has a commitment to us (Huang Shizhuo). Huang believes that Tsai’s proposal is very clever and is meant to help TUF in secret, so that if the Executive Yuan regrets, the note can be made public, making the Executive Yuan very embarrassed.

As for the note displayed by Huang on Facebook, it is exactly the promise of the political party’s version. The note reads, “TUF believes that the government has been mostly incorporated into the management mechanism; effective management mechanism includes executive orders, legislation and institutional establishment. TUF believes that it must be fully completed before it can be opened. The TUF will certainly make every effort to continue monitoring; the TUF is interested in the government’s announcement that there is a time frame, and the TUF has decided to call on the government again to incorporate the TUF’s position that 12-inch mass production is required before 8-inch can be opened into the decision.”

Huang Shizhuo said that the note was not taken out again, and the Executive Yuan followed their suggestion to delay the schedule for fabs to invest in China. As for TSMC, it was the first company to legally apply for investment in China, and applied in September 2002, but was only approved in June 2004, and moved the old 8-inch plant equipment to Shanghai, and mass production in October. Huang Shizhuo said they fought for at least a three-year time gap, and there was no new progress in opening up until Ma Ying-jeou became president.

Huang Shizhuo believes that Tsai Ing-wen must have worked hard to coordinate at that time, because after 10 days of the secret meeting of the five, she personally called on March 27 to explain the government’s existing planning and effective management, and again promised not to open up the technology below 0.25 micron. Huang Shizhuo said that he has always had a good impression of the president during his personal contacts, “She has always been someone who has worked hard to fulfill her political promises.”

Huang Shizhuo also recalled that former President Lee Teng-hui had made public comments on 8-inch fabs going to China for investment, when the pro-China faction opened up again in 2003, and Lee said that the wafer technology came from the U.S. If Taiwan’s 8-inch fabs were to go to China, had there been any discussion with the U.S.? In fact, the United States does not want to sell advanced weapons to Taiwan, why? Because of the fear that the relevant technology will soon be transferred to the Chinese Communist Party. Technology secrets are of utmost importance to any country, and should be kept for their own survival.

Huang Shizhuo said, in the Sino-US trade conflict, the competitiveness of the technology industry and the protection of patented technology is the core issue, former President Li’s appeal is like a wake-up call, to protect their own technological competitiveness is originally the country should work hard for the technology industry, there is no reason to give away their own technology, capital, and talent to others. He also mentioned his regret that the protesting force, which was focused on opposing the fabs going to China, failed to allocate efforts to formulate the Technology Protection Act to protect Taiwan’s advanced technology systematically, establish a licensing model such as “one 12-inch factory for one 8-inch factory” at that time, and formulate a management method that combines commercial interests and technological competitiveness to protect Taiwan’s The company’s leadership position in the technology industry is guaranteed.

Lastly, he said that he was unexpectedly reunited with the note from 19 years ago, perhaps because the note was urging him that it was time to move on from what he had not done back then.