After attending a medal ceremony for exceptional young adults and meeting with outstanding youth representatives today, Premier Mao Chi-kuo affirmed the contributions these young people have made to the country and the example they have set for society.
"If every young person can think positively when facing problems, the nation's potential can be fully unleashed," Mao said. He expressed hope that these exceptional young adults will fulfill their potential and will lighten up and warm their friends, schools and communities with positive energy while making Taiwan a better place.
Young adults play the social role of a rock standing firm against a current, and they are also important motors of social progress, Mao said. Young people today express boundless liveliness in both job-seeking and entrepreneurship, and the government will provide them assistance and counseling in these areas, he promised.
The premier emphasized that young talents and sufficient investment of resources are major conditions for future national progress, and helping young people build their careers is a major policy of the Executive Yuan.
Agencies will work together to encourage young people to unleash their entrepreneurial potential, and through integration of public-sector resources with private-sector capabilities, creativity and imagination will be transformed into concrete and feasible services and products, Mao said.
Meanwhile, to help young people seeking employment, efforts will be made to achieve a breakthrough in the problem of disparities between the skills industries need and the knowledge taught in schools. Targeted measures will be promoted to improve industry-academia links. The Ministry of Education will lead these efforts with support from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Labor. It is hoped that young people will all be able to find jobs and business can find new workers with whom to strive together.