Executive President Zhuo Rongtai went to the Legislative Yuan today to report on the central government’s 115-year supplementary budget and prepare for questions. This budget also involves funding for 3.9 million people including military, civil and educational pay increases, subsidies for veteran farmers, and increases in six major social welfare expenditures. It has attracted attention from the outside world. After a report and questions and answers, Legislative President Han Kuo-yu announced before the meeting adjourned that the additional budget will be reviewed by the Finance Committee in conjunction with relevant committees. Complete the commissioning process.
The Executive Yuan passed and proposed the "115 Central Government General Budget Supplementary Budget" on September 3. The Legislative Yuan today invited Executive President Zhuo Rongtai to attend the report and prepare the report for questioning. Zhuo Kui pointed out that the "six major policy aspects" of the 607.6 billion yuan in this supplementary budget include 187.5 billion yuan for "people's livelihood and stability measures in response to conflicts in the Middle East", a 233.8 billion yuan capital increase for China National Petroleum Corporation, 21.5 billion yuan for "increased social welfare", 10.7 billion yuan for "increased benefits" for military, public and educational personnel, 147.5 billion yuan for "strengthening national defense" and a preparatory budget of 300 million yuan for "initiating children's growth allowance".
Among them, external concerns include an increase of 2,000 yuan in professional bonuses for military and civil education and 2,000 yuan for supervisors. They will be distributed retroactively from July. It is estimated that 720,000 military and civil education, technical workers, and contracted personnel will actually benefit. In addition, the old farmer allowance, national pension, and six major social welfare subsidies will be increased. Related measures will be retroactively distributed from July 1, benefiting 3.18 million people. The total number of beneficiaries is approximately 3.9 million.
Kuomintang legislator Ge Rujun questioned and pointed out that the government's energy transformation white paper did not clearly include nuclear energy goals and timetable, and the energy-related funds in the supplementary budget were about 414.769 billion yuan, most of which were used for capital increases and subsidies of China National Petroleum Corporation and Taipower, questioning the government's insufficient resources to invest in emerging energy technologies. He cited the development of nuclear energy in the United States, Japan and South Korea as examples and asked the government to explain its nuclear energy policy and small modular reactor (SMR) research and development plan.
Zhuo Rongtai said that nuclear energy policy is administered in accordance with the law, and the restart of nuclear reactors II and III must be handled in accordance with the procedures of the Nuclear Reactor Facilities Control Act. Taipower has submitted an independent safety inspection report, which will be reviewed by the Nuclear Safety Commission; Minister of Economic Affairs Gong Mingxin said that the relevant safety inspection work of the Ministry of Economic Affairs is expected to be completed in 2028. Regarding SMR, Gong Mingxin pointed out that there are currently no actual commercial transfer cases in the world, and the government has planned to invest 1 billion yuan in research over four years. Zhuo Rongtai also emphasized that nuclear energy must be based on safety, nuclear waste disposal and social consensus, and individual cases must still be evaluated in accordance with the law.
After the questioning, Legislative Yuan Han Kuo-yu announced that the supplementary budget for the 2015 central government general budget would be submitted to the Finance Committee and relevant committees for review, and requested the Executive Yuan to respond to relevant written questions from the legislators as soon as possible, and then adjourned the meeting.
