近年來，全球都市(global city)議題如火如荼的在世界上各個國家展開討論，全球化使全球各地涵蓋於全球規模之生產、交易及消費之體系下，致使全球大部份地區(都市)難以獨立於世界經濟體系之外，現今的發展與脈動早已跨越行政區域的界線。在全球化浪潮與國際接軌下，台中市與台中縣合併為中部區域最主要的核心都會，面對此一競爭發展的新趨勢，新台中市須好好考慮未來都會之發展模式與全球化架構下之競爭優勢。台中都會區正面臨著「區域的整合與合作」之重要議題，唯有共同合作才能解決區域內各項因行政界線所產生之課題，提升政府效率，提出屬於自己都會發展的競合策略，如此才能因應全球經濟的激烈競爭，走出一條屬於台中自己的新道路。 In recent years, the issue of global city, under the world’s division of work, has been frequently discussed among all the nations. On the wave of globalization and internationalization, together with the new domestic borders, Taichung city & Taichung County merged to become the main core city in central Taiwan. Faced with this new competitive development, New Taichung City should ponder its future city development mode, as well as its strengths under the framework of globalization.New Taichung City is also now encountering the important issue of “regional integration and cooperation.” Only with cooperation among regions can Taichung residents solve the problems caused by the new borderlines, increase governmental efficacy, and propose co-opetition strategies of their own, through which New Taichung City may respond to the competitive global economics, and pave its own way to its new development.
