Jiang Wanan's "boycott of subsidy Huida budget" in the past has now become a political achievement, and the Internet is criticizing: Excuse me?

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan has recently frequently promoted the establishment of NVIDIA's overseas headquarters in Taipei as his main political achievement. This matter was mentioned again at a TV debate on October 31. Looking back at the cooperation process, the central government began planning as early as 2020 to subsidize Huida to set up a research and development center in Taiwan through the "Special Budget for Forward-looking Infrastructure Construction". However, it was discovered that the then legislator Chiang Wanan had led the Kuomintang group to boycott the forward-looking budget, and a large number of netizens criticized it!

Huida selected Beishike to set up its overseas headquarters, which became a major political achievement that Jiang Wanan talked about, triggering discussions from all walks of life on the context of its choice of Taiwan. Looking back on the overall cooperation process, former President Tsai Ing-wen began to contact Huida as early as 2020, and provided policy and financial support through the Ministry of Economic Affairs' "Leading Enterprise R&D Deepening Plan" (Big A+ Plan).

The Ministry of Economic Affairs approved Huida's "Artificial Intelligence Innovation R&D Center Plan" in December 2021, which will run until February 2027. The total funding is 24.337 billion yuan, and the government subsidy is 6.7 billion yuan, "all of which will be compiled from forward-looking infrastructure funds." The rest will be raised by Huida itself. This plan enabled Huida to set up Asia-Pacific's first AI innovation R&D center in Taiwan to invest in forward-looking technology research and development. It also built the "Taipei-1" supercomputer in the Kaohsiung Software Park to provide computing resources for domestic academic institutions and startup teams. Subsequently, the cooperation between the two parties gradually expanded from the R&D center. Huida negotiated with Shin Kong Life Insurance in 2024 and signed a cooperation memorandum in May 2025, officially announcing that Beishike will be used as Taiwan's overseas headquarters base, which is expected to be completed and opened in 2030.

Pulling the timeline forward to 2017, when the forward-looking budget was proposed, the Legislative Yuan was hearing the budget. The then deputy secretary-general of the KMT Legislative Yuan, Jiang Wanan, led a group of blue committee members to strongly protest and boycott. However, because the DPP held more than half of the seats in the Legislative Yuan at that time, the blue camp did not succeed in the boycott. Assuming that the boycott is successful, without the financial support of the original big A+ plan, Huida may not set up an R&D center in Taiwan, and subsequent plans to expand to overseas headquarters may not be able to take shape.

This incident was later shared on Threads, sparking heated discussions, "This needs to be broadcast vigorously, it's so funny that he keeps slapping himself in the face", "Hello, it seems that one of his political opinions will be reduced soon", "How thick-skinned does this have to be, bullets can't penetrate it", "What else is true about Jiang Wanan, isn't he afraid of being backlashed by karma?", "Who is it now? The character design is inconsistent?", "When the legislator blocked Huida's budget, when the mayor changed Huida's political performance, Jiang Bao was disgusting", "Is this true? I can't believe it!", "So he blocked Huida's forward-looking plan in Taipei, and then when Huida came to build a park in Taipei, he said that he and his wife worked hard to do it?", "He blocked Huida's budget and now he has the nerve to keep talking about Huida's breasts?"