The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has selected distribution and logistics—businesses intimately linked to people's lives—as the pilot industries for the commercial services portion of Productivity 4.0, Premier Mao Chi-kuo stated at the Cabinet meeting today.
The premier made this statement after an MOEA briefing on the commercial services in Productivity 4.0. The program's application scope for these services is broad, he noted. The premier instructed that the planning should focus on the prospects of social lifestyle a decade in the future as well as develop environments that integrate the online and offline worlds in order to satisfy demand for high-quality consumption experiences, raise the industries' competitiveness, and assist other industries such as manufacturing and agriculture to export their outstanding products worldwide so as to enlarge the policy's synergy effects.
In response to rapid development of international e-commerce, the program's promotion should center on consumers by linking up the production and marketing ends, making good use of big data, and employing such application technologies as the Internet of Things and smart logistics, the premier pointed out. He enjoined the MOEA to incorporate the strengths of legal persons, guilds, associations, industry and academia to ensure the security of e-commerce and information technology, facilitate direct dialogue between service processes and consumer markets, expand domestic demand and enhance international competitiveness while creating opportunities for service and technology exports.
The MOEA stated that upgrading and transforming commercial services via technology is a policy vision of commercial Productivity 4.0. The program is to integrate the strengths of legal persons, guilds and associations to assist in developing relevant technologies and operating models, while linking up retail and logistics businesses with integral science and technology services to engage in promotions and demonstrations. Via upgraded retail supply chains, it will help generate innovative startups, localize commercial service technologies, and cultivate talents for commercial Productivity 4.0 so as to raise industry productivity and trigger new momentum for commerce. The MOEA expects retail and logistics businesses to reach the goal of NT$2.3 million (US$70,122) of production value per capita in 2024, growth of 44 percent from 2014.