This 1974 propaganda film produced by Frederick F. Chen and directed by James Y. Liu seeks to showcase the development progress that the Republic of China has made since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. It shows several sights across the country, including the famous Palace Museum in Taipei. This is followed by an overview of progress in apartment, dam, highway, and ship construction as well as the production of export goods such as electronics, clothes, and agricultural products. It continuously emphasizes the high standard of living in the ROC through the availability of entertainment venues. It also focuses on the ROC’s role as a bastion of freedom in Asia by showing elections. This is despite the fact that in 1974 the ROC was under martial law and was being ruled by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek of the Kuomintang. Taiwan’s 38-year-long period of consecutive martial law between 20 May 1949 and 14 July 1987 was qualified as “the longest imposition of martial law by a regime anywhere in the world” at that time. It has since been surpassed by Syria.

0:06 a globe spinning and landing on Taiwan, 0:53 “This Land, This People”, 0:57 forests in the mountainous areas of Taiwan, 1:17 marble being harvested, 1:28 sheep grazing on a pasture, 2:00 delegates from the Europe, America, and Africa at a Junior Chamber of Commerce Convention in Taipei, 2:39 a B727 of China Airlines taking off, 3:16 the Palace Museum in Taipei, 3:26 Memorial Hall of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, 3:46 Buddhist Temples and Buddha Statutes, 4:29 people voting in elections, 5:09 electronic items for show at a trade fair, 5:32 shots of children being educated at schools, 6:15 teenagers at vocational institutions and universities, 6:57 an open pool nuclear reactor at Tsing Hua University, 7:09 a new nuclear reactor under construction, 7:48 an industrial complex, 8:18 construction of the Zengwen Dam, 9:08 the Grand Hotel in Taipei, 9:26 overview of apartment buildings and busy streets in Taipei, 10:29 construction of the Taiwanese highway network, 11:03 the petrochemical complex at Kaohsiung, 11:29 the inside of a car factory, 11:45 steel sheets being formed for ship construction, 12:01 overview of the shipyards and ports at Keelung and Kaohsiung, 12:28 shipping containers being loaded onto ships, 13:00 household and other electronic appliances being assembled such as radios and televisions, 13:36 textile and clothes production, 14:11 people buying things at department stores, 14:41 neon lights in downtown Taipei, 14:55 farmers working with tractors and other mechanical agricultural machinery, 15:51 combine harvesters harvesting sugar cane, 16:01 a sugar processing plant, 16:18 overview of a pineapple field, 16:28 pineapples being canned in a factory, 16:46 overview of pigs and cows on a farm, 17:05 commercial orchid farm, 17:29 overview of Sun Moon Lake, 18:00 overview of a public swimming pool in Taipei, 18:26 people enjoying themselves in an amusement park, 18:41 people playing different sports including baseball, football, track and field, and Kung Fu, 19:47 a Dragon Boat race, 20:13 card flippers at a mass gymnastics exhibition, 20:36 parades on the National Day of the Republic of China, 21:03 ROC Army troops marching, 21:13 ROC Navy conducting a live fire exercise, 21:38 ROC Air Force aircraft conducting exercises, 22:03 fireworks and special lights for the national day, 22:40 Executive Produced by Frederick F. Chen and directed by James Y. Liu

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