英文摘要 |
Nan Shih Chio Factory(南勢角工廠) was the most important resource of income for the Kuomintang (KMT) during its early years in Taiwan. It was originally a Japanese company “Taiwan Nitrogen industry corporation”(Taiwan Chisoo, 臺灣窒素工業株式會社) when Taiwan was under Japanese governance. After the World War II, the plant was taken over by a Taiwan Provincial Government-owned company “Taiwan Industrial and Mining Company”, an then transferred to a party-owned company, Chiloo Industries Inc.(齊魯企業), by the KMT in an unconventional way under the ”Land to the Tiller” program.
The huge profit of Nan Shih Chio Factory came from the oligopoly of explosives and the monopoly of detonators and fuses, with an annual surplus of $4-8 million in the 1950s when Taiwan was actively engaged in industry engineering. Although the factory lost the dominance in the explosives market due to the establishing of “Atlas Taiwan Corporation '', its monopoly in the market of detonators and fuses continued until the actory shut down in 1992.
In the case of Nan Shih Chio Factory, the political privilege intervened in the “market entry”, which resulted in the transfer of government-owned monopoly. Such a “transfer of public power” in turn eliminated all the other competitors in the industry and maintained a corporative relationship between the factory and the public sector. Even if the KMT did not intervene in “allocation of opportunities”, the Nan Shih Chio Factory secured a stable resource of income and became a “long-standing business” of government.
The Nan Shih Chio Factory is the improperly obtained property of the KMT. Even after it was shut down, the land continued to bring about lucrative rents for the party. Now that the Ill-Gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee (CIPAS) has made a disposition to restore the ill-gotten assets about KMT enterprise to the government, it’s also important that the historical truth should be restored as well in the process of transitional justice. ”Nan Shih Chio Factory” is not only the name of the land, it is also the factory that once dominated the explosives industry in Taiwan, and the unjustifiably received profit that KMT gain from the explosives industry. |