Application for investing in an 8” wafer fabrication facility in Mainland China accepted from this very day
E020425Y5 May. 2002（E33）
Source: China Times 04/25/2002
Translated by Joanne Lue
The Ministry of Economic Affairs (“MOEA”) yesterday (24) formally announced a detailed list concerning “The Prohibitive Product Items for Investment or Technical Cooperation in Mainland China Manufacturing Industry and Agriculture.” The original three classes of business items for investment in Mainland China including “approvable,’ “prohibitive,” and “special” are adjusted to two classes, “prohibitive” and ”general.” The application for investing in 8” wafer fabrication facilities in Mainland China can be filed from this very day. As to the upstream petrochemical industry, wafer tests, sealing and packaging, and IC design, they still belong to the prohibitive class.
The four principles given by the Investment Commission, MOEA are as follows:
(1) The principle of total volume control will apply to the examination of the application for investment. The ceiling for investment approved by 2005 will be three 8” wafer fabrication facilities.
(2) The application requirement for individual manufacturers is that the construction work of their 12” wafer fabrication facilities must be completed and they have maintained basic mass production for over six months.
(3) The 12” wafer fabrication facilities must have mass production of economic scale when the machines and equipment are transferred to Mainland China. Prosperity, cost, output value, quality rate and so on will be taken into account. Meanwhile, the industrial professional subcommittee will make impartial and objective judgment.
