
Tainan mayoral candidate Chen Tingfei of the Democratic Progressive Party today launched an iron horse campaign to collect votes in the 37 districts, riding into the central, western and northern districts, proposing the "Six Welfare Cities" and "3, 4, 5, 6, 7" municipal blueprint, emphasizing a comprehensive review and making up for the social welfare gap in Tainan, and building a pet-friendly city.
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Candidate Chen Tingfei launched an iron horse campaign to collect votes in Tainan District 37 and proposed welfare policies and a municipal blueprint.
Tainan mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party Chen Tingfei today continued the "Iron Horse Rise Up. The People Should Depend on 3" vote-calling operation for the 37 districts, riding into the Central, Western and North Districts. Together with the 8th district city council candidates Qiu Lili, Zhou Jiawei, Lin Jiannan, and Shen Zhennan, they went to the Fucheng God Temple to pay homage. East District City Councilor Li Zonglin also came to support and praise.
There was a 100-year-old grandma at the Iron Horse to collect votes. She specially came in a wheelchair to cheer for Chen Tingfei, shouting energetically: "Our mayor Chen Tingfei!" There was also a 90-year-old middle school girl from Jiaqi who came to give warm encouragement to her schoolmate Chen Tingfei. There were also three fur babies who came to support her, adding a warm atmosphere to the vote-seeking trip.
Chen Tingfei said that during her tenure as a legislator, she had long been concerned about animal protection issues and had been recognized by animal protection groups. In the future, this responsibility for life will also be brought to the city government to continue to improve pet-friendly spaces and related facilities, create a city that is more friendly to furry children and owners, and make Tainan the most pet-friendly space city.
In terms of municipal welfare, Chen Tingfei proposed the "Welfare in Six Cities", emphasizing that in the future, the welfare gap between Tainan and the other five cities will be comprehensively reviewed from children, teenagers, women to the elderly, and deficient projects will be gradually and year by year made up according to financial capabilities and the actual needs of the citizens, so that citizens of different generations can receive better care.
Chen Tingfei pointed out that Tainan's financial scale may not be as good as that of the other five cities, but welfare policies cannot be discounted or reduced because of this. How to provide citizens with better care is a joint effort between the city government and the council. She hopes that through planned and phased policy promotion, Tainan's social welfare will gradually be on par with the six cities, so that citizens can truly feel the happiness brought by urban progress.
Chen Tingfei further stated that she proposed the "3, 4, 5, 6, 7" municipal blueprint, which connects Xibei and Xinan through the "three axes of science and technology", "agriculture and fisheries in four seasons", "five major sightseeing axes", "six cities of welfare" and "colorful transportation", integrating the development advantages of each district, and making the entire Greater Tainan progress together. The municipal government cannot only take care of specific areas, but must allow all 37 administrative districts to find their own development positioning and truly create a Tainan that citizens can be proud of and share glory with.
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