Symbols gather into "a vast ocean current" Zhou Wanyao: It's time to turn Taipei around
As the nine-in-one election campaign enters its final 19 days, the "Taipei Mayoral Candidate Shen Boyang Academic Support Association" initiated by Taiwan's academic community held its founding meeting yesterday. About 300 people attended. One of the initiators, Emeritus Professor Zhou Wanyao of the Department of History at National Taiwan University, said that the support group was organized voluntarily by the academic community, with nearly 1,300 signatories, symbolizing that the academic community has gathered into a "vast and magnificent ocean current" and it is time to turn Taipei around.
About 300 people attended yesterday's forum to communicate. Seven academicians from Academia Sinica, including Li Wenxiong, Chen Lingjin, Du Zhengsheng, Wang Huijun, Li Decai, Wu Maokun and Lin Liqiong, attended to support the event. Five cross-field young scholars, including Professor Lin Yiren from the Museum of Peking University of the Arts, Professor Chen Penong from the Department of Engineering at National Taiwan University, Zhou Yueqing, a researcher at the Labor and Welfare Research Center for Aging at National Chung Cheng University, Peng Paulo, an associate researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at Academia Sinica, and Li Meijun, an associate researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, held a forum-style discussion based on the "HEART" (space, empowerment, companionship, resilience, time) political views proposed by Shen Boyang.
Zhou Wanyao, who was in charge of the opening, said that Shen Boyang is an excellent scholar and an intellectual in Hong Kong. The municipal planning and prospects he proposed make people feel his intentions and reassure the citizens, and the "ocean current" he set off has a positive and far-reaching impact. Young people in Taiwan have good examples to learn and imitate. Different from the selfishness, self-centeredness, confusion of right and wrong, and underestimation of culture and art seen in the past, which have caused serious harm to Taiwan, the positive and warm current has brought society back.
Lin Yiren: Shen systematically discusses policies and empathizes with them
Lin Yiren said that Shen Boyang's policy covers ecology and the environment, emphasizes the concept of social ecology, and discusses it in a systematic way. For him who has also been trained in ecology, he can relate to it. Lin said that "Eco" in the English word "Ecology" should be more accurately translated as "where". Who is there, what is there, when, where, how and why. Once these questions come up, "I think Taiwanese identity will come out."
Shen Boyang said that the fan club originally targeted 50 people, but he did not expect so many friends from the academic community to respond. He thanked everyone for their support, which moved him, who is also from an academic background. Participants raised their thoughts on municipal administration, and he responded to them one by one. The most important thing is to make the policy more precise in order to truly achieve it. It is helping people, and it has also promised that if elected as mayor of Taipei, it will set up a city-level think tank "Taipei Research Institute" to continue to invite professionals from all walks of life to formulate plans on issues and send them to the parliament to set standards, so that civil servants will have clear standards to follow when implementing them, and to incorporate age and gender factors into various policy plans.
