| Summary: | 碩士 === 中華大學 === 經營管理研究所 === 92 === Abstract
Situated in the northern part of Taiwan, Hsinchu County has rich natural resources; its people are simple, thrifty, and hardworking folks — the “salt of the earth.” Although it had a brush with the Science-Based Industrial Park twenty-five years ago, today it has become the only hinterland in the face of high-tech industry development; it is also the major area for government’s efforts to invest the next wave of technology and infrastructure. Aside from the infrastructure investment of the high-tech industry, the Hsinchu County government is aggressively recreating its towns and villages, planning infrastructure schemes, protecting and developing the environment, building more convenient and accessible transportation system, promoting more comprehensive social welfare, developing better cultural and tourism spots, and highlighting local industries and cultures, to push Hsinchu County onto center stage.
Different infrastructure developments create cities, towns, and villages with diverse features. Consequently, this study hopes to further explore the development characteristics of various towns and villages according to the different development indexes, in order to understand the differences in the development of Hsinchu County’s towns and villages. Then, again using the level of difference between rural and urban areas, the study explores the difference between the levels of satisfaction people have for the competitiveness of the area they live, to understand the competitive levels of the various rural and urban areas.
During the research, the study categorized the local development indexes that showed the development characteristics of rural and urban development based on its review of related literature. These indexes included urban land ratio, percentage of arable land area, population density, higher education population, number of industrial and commercial entities, and local financial policies. There were also five competitive indexes: peace and order situation, transportation situation, social welfare, environmental protection, and tourism and leisure. After established the indexes, the study used Hsinchu County’s 2002 statistics, the 2002 budget summaries of the thirteen cities, towns, and villages as basis and conducted group correlation analysis on the thirteen areas to get different groupings. After grouping, the study used the variable analysis to compare the difference in each index in terms of rural and urban development. Then the study used the difference in the levels of rural and urban development to explore the level of satisfaction of the citizens regarding the competitiveness of the area they live in. Chi square analysis was conducted on the 2003 survey report of the services rendered by the county government for the people to analyze and compare the difference in the levels of competitiveness in the various rural and urban development areas.
Through data analysis, the study has obtained the abovementioned rural-urban development index categorization from Hsinchu County’s thirteen cities, towns, and villages. These indexes can be divided into urban industrial and commercial development type, agricultural development type, and stalled development type. The urban industrial and commercial development areas include Chupei and Chutung; agricultural development areas include Kuanhsi, Hsinpu, Hukou, Hsinfeng, Hengshan, Chunglin, Paoshan, Peipu, and Omei; stalled development areas include Chienshih and Wufeng.
In the area of competitiveness, the levels of satisfaction of “peace and order situation,” “transportation situation,” “environmental protection,” and other indexes didn’t show significant differences. However, there were significant differences in “social welfare” and “tourism and leisure.” For stalled development areas, the levels of satisfaction in two competitiveness indexes, namely “social welfare” and “tourism and leisure” are the highest. From this fact, it was obvious that the government has successfully promoted “social welfare” and “tourism and travel” policies in these areas.
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