New Taipei City Mayor’s Political Meeting Li Sichuan: Being from the grassroots level allows me to better understand the people’s hardships

KMT New Taipei City Mayor candidate Li Sichuan participated in the New Taipei City Mayor's televised debate-style political speech on the 13th. During his speech, he emphasized that he was born in a fishing village. He grew up with a hard life and worked part-time to complete his studies at Taipei Polytechnic College. His opponent Su Qiaohui's father served as county magistrate and executive director, so he can better understand the hardships of the grassroots people.

Li Sichuan said that his father had been fishing all his life and always warned him to "be honest in life and be serious in work." This sentence has always been in his heart. When he becomes mayor in the future, he will use more than 40 years of experience in doing things to let his children grow up in New Taipei with peace of mind, young people can find good jobs nearby, and everyone who works hard can live a good life in New Taipei.

Li Sichuan said that his public service career started from the grassroots level three to the fourteenth level, and he has worked at every level in between. In his public service career of more than 40 years, he has taken one step at a time, without taking shortcuts or relying on luck. He has served as deputy magistrate of Taipei County, The deputy mayor of New Taipei City has also served in the Central Government, Taipei, and Kaohsiung. Although his position is different, his attitude towards doing things remains the same. As the saying goes, "a blade of grass, a drop of light", everyone who works hard should have the opportunity to develop. This is a normal city.

Li Sichuan detailed his service experience in New Taipei City from Taipei County to the present, improving 69 areas prone to flooding, and also raising the Guangfu Bridge. In order to reduce floods from entering Banqiao, he and Mayor Zhu Lilun proposed the "three rings and three lines". Later, Mayor Hou Youyi took over and led the team to push forward the construction. Now that they are all open to traffic, he also promoted The 1280 public transportation ticket, which later became the 1200TPASS, allows people who go to work or go to school across the city every day to have less transportation expenses. At the same time, he also mentioned the preparation of Tucheng Hospital. At that time, more than 2,000 tombs had to be relocated first. He held a coordination meeting for 5 years so that the villagers could see a doctor nearby. He has always thanked the family members for their consideration.

Li Sichuan said that he has three important directions for how New Taipei will go in the future: First, to carry out urban renewal, he will promote the government-level "urban renewal promotion committee" to review laws and regulations, simplify procedures, promote disaster-prevention urban renewal, adjust the base volume, and increase incentives for flood detention and disaster prevention facilities. Second, build an AI technology corridor and build the Lushe Bridge. Huida will station in Beishike and connect Beishike to Luzhou and Wugu, and then to Banqiao and Tucheng through Provincial Highway 64 and 65. There are industrial parks in Tucheng, including Hon Hai, and then to Xindianbao High-tech Park.

Li Sichuan said that for enterprises to invest, transportation must be accessible. Therefore, I proposed "Track Construction 123", with one acceleration, two express lines, and three connections. The first acceleration is to connect the Xidong Line to the East Ring Section to open up the bottleneck of Xizhi entering Taipei's road network. The two express lines are to promote the Danbei Express Line and the Dahanxi MRT through-line to solve the traffic problems in Tamsui, Sanchong, Xinzhuang, Shulin, and Tucheng. Three connections, the Lushe Bridge connects to Beishike, and the north-south extension of the Zhonghe Guangfu Line will be solved to solve the problem of traffic jams in Zhonghe. I will also speed up the deep pit light rail and extend it to Shiding and Pinglin.

Third, there is Dome City in the south and Science City in the north. To the south, Mayor Hou is promoting Dome City in the woods. I will build a big dome to combine sports, concerts and exhibition economies, combined with surrounding hotels and amusement parks, to drive overall business development. I will also build a dome in the woods. Banqiao is promoting the Little Arena; to the north, Tamsui is promoting the Science City and rezoning the second and third phases of Tamhai New Town into an AI high-tech corridor. In addition to the hardware, I also care about the elders, every family, and even the furry children at home.

Finally, Li Sichuan promised to top up the childcare leave salary to full salary, so that parents can accompany their children with peace of mind; build a municipal animal health hospital and promote pet-friendly government consultations so that citizens with furry babies can go to the city government with peace of mind; promote six major safety checks for the elderly, provide support of up to 30,000 yuan, so that the health of the elders is guaranteed and family care is more secure; taking the difficulties of the folks at heart and helping everyone get things done. This is true companionship.