When we arrived in Vietnam 15 years ago, my first impression was that the scenery in Vietnam was quite similar to that of Taiwan of the time I came there at the age of 10. Whether the customs, human sentiments, geography or landscape are concerned, they are so like those of Taiwan. My wife often says she never feels she is in a foreign country when she comes to Vietnam. When somebody speaks to her as to a foreigner, most of the time she will automatically turn her head to see if there are any foreigners behind her. It is because she never considers herself a "foreigner" here.

We are the generation that has experienced successes and failures in the course of development of Taiwan. We are also the generation whose forefathers had to save up so that we could be sent abroad to study and to work, and the generation that experienced Taiwan's challenging course for going forward and also witnessed the growth of other countries. Therefore, when we has the chance to come to your esteemed country, to talk to your good leaders and get into good partnership with Tan Thuan Industrial Promotion Company (IPC), we have devoted all our hearts and strength to bringing our project onto the way of success without making any wrong steps.

The project that we have jointly invested in, Tan Thuan EPZ, has been honorably graded the top of all EPZ's and IP's in Asian - Pacific region. Hiep Phuoc Power Plant, invested by ourselves and fully supported by Da Tang Power Corporation, has become the first power plant in Vietnam to receive ISO-9002 certificate. So far our record of performing forestation on 23,000 ha of land in Kien Giang Province has not been beaten. Phu My Hung Corporation has been praised by extinguished European and American Academies. With the wholehearted support of the Second Bureau of China Construction Engineering Corporation, Phu My Hung Corporation has made great strides forward in a short time. All these accomplishments appear visibly to the authorities who have trusted us and are the results of the earnest collaboration of all our staff. 

On behalf of all our colleagues and of the overseas investors, I would like to express our most sincere thanks and best greetings our leaders and partners. As there are no precedents to be followed in a lot of work that we have performed, there might have been some misunderstanding arising during the process of our performance; so, on behalf of all the staff, I would like to make a sincere apology to some leaders and residents. We would appreciate your understanding for that.

In Vietnam, farmers account for 75% of the population but their products cannot fetch high prices in the world market, due to the question of maintaining freshness of products. For instance, if spinach is sold at VND 100 per kilo in a supermarket overseas, the spinach from Vietnam can only be sold at VND 20 per kilo. The reason is that there are still missing links in the process of collecting, selecting, sorting, cold storing and transporting the products. Therefore, in the last few years IPC and we have been working together on this and trying to set up such processing in Tan Thuan EPZ so as to bring happiness to a part of farmers. This scheme has started to attract the interest of some large overseas companies and has made several leaps forward in the last few months. We hope that with our best efforts we will overcome all difficulties to accomplish this plan as a token of our gratitude to the esteemed leaders for sparing us some of your precious time to come here to attend the 10th anniversary ceremony of Phu My Hung Corporation's establishment. Thank you!