Thanks to a strengthening economic recovery, the number of science park workers on unpaid leave has dropped to 66 in February from a peak of 128,000 in January 2009, Premier Wu Den-yih said Wednesday. Furthermore, Taiwan's three science parks -- the Hsinchu Science Park, Central Taiwan Science Park and Southern Science Park -- will recruit a total of 14,000 new workers in March and April, he added. Speaking at a gathering of industrial and business leaders, Wu thanked them for their efforts to pump new life into the economy after Taiwan's unemployment rate hit an all-time of 6.13 percent last January. At that time, the industrial parks around Taiwan were reporting a total of 230,000 workers on unpaid leave, Wu recalled. This year, the government will focus on three major policies -- legislation of the Industrial Innovation Act, introduction of energy-saving and carbon- reduction measures, and the signing of a cross-Taiwan Strait economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) , Wu said. He reiterated the importance of the ECFA which he said can help link Taiwan's industrial sectors more closely with the regional market. 