Hakka industry Research Center

Background:

In order to promote Hakka culture and to build up a world Hakka culture center in Taiwan, Council for Hakka Affairs（CHA）, Executive Yuan, has been offered relative projects to vitalized Hakka culture and industry. Such seven projects are「First term six-year project for Hakka language on sustainable growth」, 「First term six-year project for the vitalization of Hakka coulture」, 「First term six-year project for the promotion of Hakka society」, 「Six-year project for the development of Hakka language communication」,「Four-year project for the added economical development of Hakka characteristic culture」, 「Six-year project for the promotion of Hakka knowledge group」and 「First term foru-year project for the cooperation and exchange of oversea Hakkaness」. For carrying out these goals, CHA set up an operational procedure for founding Hakka academic institutes by combining Taiwan’s Universities to promote Hakka academic research. Based on this operational procedure, there are some Hakka cultural centers or institutes have been established. However, there is no such research centers related to promote added economical value and tourism of Hakka industry. Owning to Hakka traditional histry, geographical location and social culture, it shows a significant characteristic. In Taiwan, the population of Hakkaness people is smaller than Taiwanese people. They originally residents in hills area, then moved to plain land, always lived with agriculture. NationalPingtungUniversity of Science and Technology has been established for 80 years, which is famous for her full of agricultural experts and researchers and facilities. Especially, NPUST is located at a Hakka village and closed to a Hakka cultural park, which is quite an advantage to establish a research center of Hakka industry. To integrate the resources, in a first stage, any field researches includes Pingtung and Kaoushing area, then reach to central and eastern Taiwan and extend to some Hakka communities in China in the second stage. Finally it will extend to southern Asia and other countries. The three stages will be carried out by local institutes and foreign Hakka researchers through industry and academia collaboration.

Goal

• To plan the organization frame of the center, and to set up Tourism and Recreation division, Life Industry division and Community Development divisions.
• To accomplish the administration procedure for establishing HakkaResearchCenter.
• To plan the development based on short term, mid term and long term goals of each division.
• To set up Hakka research network by building a database connecting relative local and international scholars profiles, resources and information of Hakka affairs.
• To go for internationalization by inviting local and international scholars to joint some research projects for Hakka affairs or to held international conferences.
• To strength the exchange and share information among all research academic and Universities in Taiwan.
• To provide an environment for students learning Hakkaness in the campus to enhance the competition of job markets.
• To promote the culture of the second large race in Taiwan, and to enhance the understanding of local culture and relations between multi-race in Taiwan.
• To accomplish a mechanism of academia and industry cooperation for Hakka industry.