FTV reinvested in developing a media village in Linkou District
FTV reinvested NT$1.5 billion in the New Taipei Media Village in Linkou District. New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu and FTV General Manager Chen Gangxin signed a contract to cooperate on the development of the New Taipei Media Village on the first floor of the Government’s city hall on 10/7/2013. Chu hoped television and film industries in Taiwan would make big progress to promote themselves to the world.
Mayor Chu said that the government had launched a New Taipei City Media Village project. He appreciated that the FTV team led to support the project, signed the first development project contract with the government last April, and promised to build a digital media headquarter, the first one in New Taipei City. The headquarter construction was started this July. Good thing came in pairs. The TVBS team won the second deal to develop a multimedia creation work base as well, and it already signed a contract. The construction would begin in the end of this year. Moreover, the FTV team again won the third deal, and a large media village would be predicted to be built.
Mayor Chu stated that the media village would aim in incorporating neighborhood recreation and tourism industry to become an important place for domestic drama and film groups to use, or even it could offer outdoor scenes for those groups. In the future, FTV would open the village to all the television and drama groups, and it was believed that this could boost the domestic television and film industry. The village would belong to all the civilians, to Taiwan, and even overseas Chinese film and drama teams were welcome to use it. Chu truly appreciated and admired the FTV group’s enthusiastic spirits.
Chu also said that in the 21st century, people would make more profits only by the integration of media, software and entertainment industry rather than wholly depending on traditional manufacturing skills. Taiwanese had innovative skills, and with suitable development resources, he believed that domestic film and television industry could greatly grow and catch up with Japan’s and South Korea’s.
FTV General Manager Chen Gangxin was thankful to the government’s support. He said that the New Taipei Media Village was like a microcosm of Taiwan’s past because it had streets reflecting Taipei’s Dadaocheng area in old times, and it had Japanese-style houses similar to those in the colonial era as well as western Baroque style buildings. He stated that the village would be open to all the media and drama groups in Taiwan when the construction was finished. He also hoped that the village could be expanded so that it could have much more potential to develop.
Economic Development Department reported that FTV had invested NT$1.5 billion in the 1.34 hectare New Taipei Media Park, which was predicted to create approximately 1750 employment opportunities. The construction license was obtained in the March of 2015, and the village would be completed in the March of 2017. The village could boost nearby tourism and recreation business development, and would bring about 150,000 tourists and 300 million business every year, so a bright future could be expected.
