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BackMy love for culture doesn’t stop when I grow up! Shen Boyang advocates increasing Taipei City’s cultural currency to 30 years old
My love for culture doesn’t stop when I grow up! Shen Boyang advocates increasing Taipei City’s cultural currency to 30 years old
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My love for culture doesn’t stop when I grow up! Shen Boyang advocates increasing Taipei City’s cultural currency to 30 years old

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  • Shen Boyang, the Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party in 2026, proposed to increase the applicable age of cultural currency to 30 years old.
  • The current central policy applies to 13 to 22 years old, with 1,200 points per person per year.
  • The post received more than 20,000 likes within an hour of being posted, striking a chord with young socialites and art lovers.

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Why It Matters

The central government's current cultural currency policy is applicable to young people aged 13 to 22, and each person is issued 1,200 cultural currency points every year. Shen Boyang is the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate for Taipei mayor in 2026.

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Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang. (File photo)

Shen Boyang, the 2026 Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, threw out his cultural political views today, advocating increasing cultural currency until the age of 30, emphasizing that "loving culture will not stop when you grow up." The post received over 20,000 likes in just one hour after it was posted, arousing strong resonance among many young socialites and art lovers.

"Like culture, Shen Boyang posted in Threads that the current cultural currency policy implemented by the central government is applicable to young people aged 13 to 22, and each person is given 1,200 cultural currency points every year. However, after leaving school and entering the workplace, many people are still eager to buy a favorite book, go to the theater to watch a long-awaited play, or listen to a soul-stabilizing music performance. "If I become the mayor of Taipei, I hope to reduce the burden of young people's exposure to cultural content as much as possible."

Many netizens left messages saying, "I really hope that the cultural currency can be extended to the age of 30! I have to pay rent and living expenses when I just come out of society. Sometimes when I see a performance I want to see, I still hesitate because of the ticket price. If it can give everyone one more chance to enter the theater, I think it is very meaningful.", "I support with tears at the age of 35", "Although I can't receive the cultural currency, this is why we have to work hard to elect the right people, everything is for the next generation to have a better life!", "Why am I not a Taipei citizen", "I am almost 30" You'd better get elected soon!"

Open Questions

  • The specific financial resources and budget of Taipei City’s cultural currency increase policy
  • If implemented, people over 30 years old and under certain conditions can receive it
  • How to connect it with the central government’s current cultural currency policy

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This article was originally published by 自由时报.

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