In the 1990s, when I was living outside Kaohsiung, the locals sardonically summed up the central government’s regional policies with a play on the term for male chauvinism: “Stress the north, ignore the south.”
It’s now been over a decade since Tainan, Kaohsiung city and county, Taichung and Taipei County were upgraded to special municipalities in December 2010, with Taoyuan following suit in 2014. At present, some two-thirds of the population is contained in these six large administrative areas.
After the change, some 61 percent of the central government funds for local areas went to the municipalities, with the share
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Dec. 19 convened a meeting at her official residence with leading members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on the merger and elevation to special municipality status of Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County.
At a news conference following the meeting, it was revealed that the participants had achieved a “high degree of consensus” on the proposed merger, although there were differing opinions within the party on DPP caucus whip Ker Chien-ming’s (柯建銘) suggestion of amending the Local Government Act (地方制度法) to lower the threshold for the upgrade to go ahead.
Tsai had previously, in her capacity as
Taipei, Dec. 27 (CNA) Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) announced on Monday that he will not run for mayor of greater Hsinchu in 2022, following the likely re-designation of the area as a special municipality.
Taiwan has laid a good foundation for high-tech development and plans to invest more in software innovation, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the first building in Hsinchu Science Park X.
Located near the Hsinchu Science Park which is home to many of the nation’s tech heavyweights, such as contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) Hsinchu Science Park X is expected to become the city’s second tech corridor and the first step to create a new tech cluster with a focus on software development, the Hsinchu City Government said.
The first building is to