Jurong Island, a symbol of National Enterprise

The vision of wanting to turn Jurong Island into a symbol of National Enterprise:

Vision 2010: to develop Jurong Island into a World Class Chemical Hub to accommodate 5 crackers (a chemical reactor used for cracking-the process of breaking down certain hydrocarbons into simpler ones in order to give a greater yield of low-boiling products than could be obtained by simple distillation) and 150 companies with a total estimated fixed asset investment of S$40 billion by 2010. JTC (Jurong Town Corporation) and EDB (Economic Development Board) aim to achieve feedstock sufficiency for Jurong Island with 3 million tonnes of ethylene ( the basic petrochemical feedstock ) by 2010 as compared to existing capacity of 1.8 million tonnes.