1. The plan on “reviving conventional industries” (振興傳統產業方案), was announced on June 28th 2000 by the Executive Yuan and was referred by the Industrial Development Bureau to carry out the scheme of “Assisting the Conventional Industries in Building up the Capability of Technology Development”. 2. In accordance with “Enforcement Rules of the Statute for Upgrading Industries (促進產業升級條例)”, “the incentive program for initiating new product development of the conventional industries (傳統工業新產品開發輔導辦法)” has been formulated to carry out the scheme. 3. In 2006, the Executive Yuan presented the package plan which specified the importance of traditional industry development. 4. In 2007, the Ministry of Economic Affairs presented the “scheme of assisting traditional industries (傳統產業輔導措施)” and from then on increased budget year by year. This is to help traditional industrialists to fully exploit the resources from the Government. 5. The Government subsidizes traditional industrialists to develop new products and techniques in order to improve competitiveness. 6. The objectives receiving subsidies: according to the Act 8 of the “Enforcement Rules of the Statute for Upgrading Industries (促進產業升級條例)”, traditional industrialists means the private sectors operating traditional manufacturing and technical businesses instead of newly developed important and strategic industries. 7. Subsidized objectives: newly developed products of which the quality and level should be above the average of domestic and similar industries 8. Amount of subsidy: NTD$1.6 million for one year and NTD$3.2 million for 2 years.