"At the end of November 2011, an unusual show was held at an exhibition hall at Taipei’s World Trade Center. The two-day event was dubbed the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) Listed Companies Expo and was one of a series of activities marking the bourse’s 50th anniversary. A visit to the exhibition gave attendees an opportunity to check out the booths of more than 80 large TWSE-listed companies and attend lectures by experts about the local stock market. The main point of the show, however, was visible in the panels with text and old photos that celebrated the TWSE’s role in Taiwan’s economic development. “The stock market is a window on the economy of a nation,” says Chi Schive (薛琦), the exchange’s chairman. “That’s why the TWSE’s transformations and expansions fully reflect those of the ROC [Republic of China] economy as a whole.”
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