When it opens in 2017, the Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts will be a world-class performance center that balances cultural development across Taiwan, Premier Chang San-cheng said today while inspecting the construction project in Kaohsiung City.
"The center is highly anticipated by people not only in southern Taiwan but all over the nation," said the premier. He hopes the Ministry of Culture (MOC) will see to it that construction is completed as scheduled by June this year.
Construction on the project began in 2010 and about 95 percent has been completed so far, according to the MOC. Located in downtown Kaohsiung, the arts center will be the largest cultural facility in the nation, incorporating an urban ecological park and a special commercial zone.
Southern Taiwan abounds with creative energy and artistic inspiration, the MOC added. Apart from driving the region's performing arts development for the next 30 years, the center is expected to be a hotspot on the Asian and international art scene and become a new cultural landmark for southern Taiwan.