Experts at a forum at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday called for more consistent allocation of resources between municipalities to avoid “making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃) and other lawmakers convened the discussion to address unequal resource distribution, an issue that has risen to the foreground amid calls to merge Hsinchu city and county into a special municipality.
Many experts at the meeting suggested amending the Act Governing the Allocation of Government Revenues and Expenditures (財政收支劃分法) to address the issue.
The law was last amended in 1999, National Taiwan University College of Law
A sizeable Republic of China (ROC) map in the Legislative Yuan showing Nanjing in China as the capital has been replaced by a collection of maps depicting Taiwan throughout the past 400 years.
The original “begonia” map, so named because it resembles a begonia leaf, depicts an extended swath of ROC territory, notably including Outer Mongolia.
As it hangs near a busy stairwell on the second floor of the Legislative Yuan compound’s Red Building, the map often serves as a backdrop for media interviews.
It has often drawn criticism for being anachronistic, but the legislature has delayed replacing it citing the absence of