Community-oriented Fair, Opening Ceremony for South-north Access Road, and Opening of the Month of Promoting Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection at TSP were held.

Land obtaining in TSP’s Phase II site was completed.

Wastewater Treatment Plant at TSP was awarded the Outstanding Environmental Protection Project in 2002.

Waste Treatment Center at TSP started operation.

Test lab of Wastewater Treatment Plant at TSP received certification from the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s Environmental Analysis Laboratory.

No trash to the ground and recycling in TSP started.

Construction of the County Highway 135 to National Expressway 8 route of southern connecting road in TSP was completed.

Gallery of Archeology opened.

Nanke Junior High School started to accept applications.

Development Plan of TSP was awarded the top performer in the Executive Yuan’s excellent plans of 2001.

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) set up a branch in TSP.

Southern branch of National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) opened.

Nanke Extra High Voltage Substation started using.

Water-level station, rainfall station and flood alert system were completed.

Fire Brigade entered in TSP.

Development plan for TSP’s Phase II site expansion was approved by the Executive Yuan. Southern branch of National Nano Device Laboratories (NDL) opened. Southern branch of National Chip Implementation Center (NCIC) opened.

Academia-Industry Consortium for Southern Taiwan Science Park was established.

Wastewater Treatment Plant at TSP was ISO14001 certified.

Nanke Elementary School started to accept applications.

President Shui-bian Chen hosted the Construction Commencement Ceremony of LSP.

LSP was approved for developing by the Ministry of the Interior.

Signed the Cooperational Development Contrast of LSP with Taiwan Sugar Corporation.

Premier Chun-Hsiung Chang visited TSP and instructed to speed up the developing of TSP’s Phase II site and use expropriation for developing.

Executive Yuan approved the LSP development plan.

Signed the Cooperational Development Agreement of LSP with Taiwan Sugar Corporation.

Environmental Impact Assessment Committee of Environmental Protection Administration agreed the environmental impact evaluation statement of TSMC’s factory in TSP.

Transition use of public lands in TSP was completed.

Opening Ceremony of Applied Materials Taiwan in TSP was held.

NSC proposed LSP development plan to the Executive Yuan.

Girder Placing Ceremony of UMC in TSP was hosted.

Environmental Protection Administration agreed the environmental impact evaluation statement of the Development Plan of the Luzhu Intelligent Industrial Park.

Discovered the Wujiancuobei Historical Site.

Discovered the Nanguanli Historical Site. Vice President Hsiu-lien Lyu visited TSP’s Phase I site and LSP.

One-stop Window for the environmental protection service opened.

President Shui-bian Chen visited LSP.

Girder Placing Ceremony of Applied Materials Taiwan in TSP was hosted

Executive Yuan agreed to use Taiwan Sugar Corporation’s Luzhu farm and part of the Benchou farm as the expansion site for TSP.

Developing team of Luzhu Science Park (LSP) was established.

Rescue of the Beisanshe Historical Site by the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica had great achievement of recovering the historical remains from the black pottery culture 2500 to 3000 years ago.

Development Plan of TSP was awarded the top performer in the Executive Yuan’s excellent plans of 1999.

TSMC’s Fab 6 passed the commencement check and began mass production.

Construction Commencement Ceremony of Nanke Elementary School was held.

Construction of TSMC’s twelve-inch wafer fab (Fab 14) in TSP commenced.

Dr. Tai, the Director of the Institute of Biotechnology of the National Cheng Kung University, took over the position as the director of the TSP Development Office. Corning, the first TFT glass substrate factory in Taiwan, had their construction commence