Announce Department：General Affairs Department
May 19th, 2011
Reported by journalist H. C. T. from Kinnin
The contract signing ceremony for Kinmen’s first international tourism and business hotel—Jinfu Business Hotel, was officially held yesterday by County mayor Li, National Quemoy University Pricipal, E. R. Group President jointly intending to achieve hotel construction and academic-industry cooperation. This international tourism and business hotel will start business operation after 3-year construction period and will create 1,000 jobs and promote tourism industry upgrading. County Mayor Li expects this big investment in billions of NT$ will create a new landmark building for Kinmen and also provide job training and job opportunities for local residents and also impetus for Kinmen tourism industry development.
For promoting local tourism development, Kimen County government selects a County-owned land as large as 2.1 hectares at the Small Tai Lake side to conduct a BOT tender invitation in term of establishment of superficies for up to 50 years with the goal of building a business hotel featuring versatile business functions including accommodation, a shopping center, a conference hall and dining arcade. The E. R. Group won the tender award in term of the mechanism of the most advantageous tender. E. R. Group Chairman arrive at this spectacular contract signing ceremony in National Quemoy University at 2:00 pm yesterday for signing this Jinfu Town Business Hotel BOT cooperation contract jointly with County Mayor Li. Meanwhile, National Quemoy University Principal also signed an academic-business cooperation contract with the BOT tender winner President Chiang intending to unite academic and business resources for creating the most advanced landmark shopping center with integration of Kinmen localization culture uniqueness. Jinfu Town Mayor, Central Investment Corporation President, Kinmen KIAOLIANG LIQUOR President, Kinmen County Finance Bureau Chief, Land Administration Bureau Chief, and Legislator Chen’s chief secretary were all invited to attend this historical event with lots of residents and University students on the scene. The first hotel featuring a big duty free shopping center is officially commenced.
County Mayor Li is very excited at successful achievement of the Kinmen’s first BOT since his inauguration. He does appreciate for the tender award winner E. R Group’s devotion for participation in this BOT tender in which lots of bidders are also pretty financially capable. County Mayor Li’s excitement concerning this cooperation partnership with E. R. Group can be expressed by a folk proverb” Getting a decent son-in-law”. County Mayor Li also praised E. R. Group’s long term devotion for social public welfare. He emphasized that E. R. Group has created lots of jobs and offered job training for local young generations in past few years. He is very impressed with the service staffs’ well-manner and humble attitude in E. R. Group’s duty free branch shop in Kinmen. He said E. R. Group shall be a benchmark for all institutes in Kinmen.
County Mayor Li also indicated that E. R. Group’s business development ambition for Kinmen can be fully demonstrated by E. R. Group’s planning to invest huge funds on this BOT Jinfu Business Hotel. This hotel will become the best and also a new landmark in Kinmen.
County Mayor Li also express appreciation for E. R. Group’s academic-enterprise cooperation with National Quemoy University. He hopes this academic-enterprise cooperation can establish an exemplar model for making efforts in concert for promoting Kinmen tourism industry and then attract more enterprises to invest in local tourism and also offer valuable academic-enterprise cooperation experience and daily increasing knowledge accumulation for National Quemoy University. National Quemoy is one of the most valuable assets for Kinmen County and plays a leadership role for promoting Kinmen long term development in the future. He wishes there will have more enterprises cooperating with National Quemoy University bring Kinmen university students a better learning environment and job skill training during studying. University graduates can then have better competition edge and adaptive capacity for seeking employment after graduation.
County Mayor Li expressed appreciation for E. R. Group offering scholarship for university students, including NT$200,000 subsidy for economically disadvantaged students and bonus awards for the Dept. of Tourism in the University and provision of part-time jobs for students of Dept. of Tourism MGMT and International Affairs. He is confident for that the academic-enterprise cooperation between The University and E. R. Group will offer better opportunities in the future. After this business hotel starts operation, lots of probation training and jobs will be available for the university students.
Central Investment Corporation President Mr. Huang also expressed congratulation for National Quemoy University’s academic-enterprise cooperation with such a premiere enterprise providing university students excellent learning environment and employment opportunity. President Huang said that lots of overseas Kinmen natives do expect Kinmen can have an international standard business-orientated hotel as Xiamen City across the strait in mainland China. Kinmen’s first international hotel featuring versatile functions with integration of local culture attractiveness will be fulfilled in the very near future. The amount of business travelers, traffic volume and investment in Kinmen will increase at amazingly quick pace. The most valuable is that lots of employment opportunities will be created for local residents then.
E. R Gorup President Chiang stated that more than NT$ 10 million will spent on designating an internationally famous British architecture institute “Benoy Limited” as the design team adopting “Localization, Modernization, Green Beauty” as the architecture design themes. The currently proposed configuring is composed of one basement level, and 13 floors aboveground including 264 scenery hotel rooms and a duty free shopping center, an international conference center and a multiple theme dining center. President Chiang said that E. R. Group will invest more than NT# 3 billion in the building construction of Jinfu International Hotel, employee training and expects to complete the construction and start hotel operation in 3 years. More than 1,000 jobs will be created then. The Group’s academic-enterprise cooperation with the University will offer tourism, hotel, dining and business training for local residents and promote tourism relevant business development.
Jinfu International Hotel will create an ambiance integrating Kinmen traditional folk arts and humanity characters and also ecology protection concepts, such establishing a migratory bird zoo, preservation for natural scenery and resources and establishing a Kinmen Uniqueness Center providing local delis. This international hotel is expected to the new landmark featuring business services, tourism and leisure and shopping in “Kinmen-Xiamen Living Community”. The Group will also do its best to work in concert with the County government for the five major priority goals, “International Tourism Leisure Island”, “High-Quality Health Promotion & Medical Care Island”, “Prime Duty Free Shopping Center”, “University Island Among Mainalnd China & Taiwan” and “Fragrance Enrichment White Liquor Culture Island”.