In the Atlantic Ocean, in the northwest of Europe, lies an island nation with a pleasant climate, dense forests, and picturesque scenery, known as the "Emerald Isle." This is Ireland, a country that has attracted global attention in recent years. With a total area of 70,282 square kilometers and a population of approximately 4.5 million, this small nation has traveled a long and arduous path in its economic development. Historically, Ireland was a country dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, often referred to as "Europe's rural area." From its independence in 1922 until the 1960s, Ireland remained constrained by a single economic structure focused on agriculture and animal husbandry. Due to imbalanced macroeconomic regulation by the government and historical over-reliance on the British economy and market, export channels were narrow, and economic production and daily life were entirely dependent on others. The shadows of high inflation, high unemployment, and high debt plagued this beautiful island nation, leaving the national standard of living at a low level in Europe, which led many Irish people to choose to leave their homeland in search of better opportunities.
Beginning in the 1960s, and especially since the 1990s, the Irish government has continuously adjusted its economic policies and transformed its economic structure, successfully transitioning from an agricultural economy to a knowledge-based economy, earning titles such as "Europe's Software Capital" and "Europe's Silicon Valley." Since 1995, Ireland's economy has maintained rapid growth, becoming one of the fastest-growing economies in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and has been hailed as the "Celtic Tiger." From 1997 to 2007, wage growth in Ireland was nearly five times that of other countries in the Eurozone. In 2009, Ireland's GDP per capita reached approximately 40,000 USD, and it attracted 210 billion Euros in foreign investment over a decade, with social welfare expenditure proportions exceeding those of the United Kingdom and France. The British magazine The Economist once ranked Ireland as one of the "countries with the highest quality of life in the world."
The Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service announced that starting from April 16, 2012, two new immigration initiatives would be introduced: the Immigrant Investor Programme and the Start-up Entrepreneur Programme. These two initiatives are designed to provide residency facilitation for foreign investors or entrepreneurs who can create job opportunities or retain existing positions. These will replace the existing business permission visas. As a leading institution in the Chinese immigration industry, Worldway Group was the first to launch these two programs globally and has officially begun accepting applications from investors.
