Taitung Beinan Township Party Headquarters Controversy: The former township head confirmed that the land was a private donation and not an improper party property

Recently, among the public office buildings in Beinan Township, Taitung, a large poster of Lanying County Mayor candidate Wu Xiuhua was hung in one building. The building is the KMT township party headquarters, but next to the health bureau and household registration office, there is also a "health clinic" sign on the outer wall. It was questioned that "the party and the country are not divided." The KMT editor tried his best to debate with netizens on Threads, but it was not clear where it came from. Former Beinan Township mayor Xu Wenwen said that the source was clean.

The party headquarters involved in the controversy is adjacent to the household affairs and health departments within the same outer wall. No wonder it is considered "improper party property." Wu Xiuhua's camp responded that it is a different building from other government units. The editor of Lanying also replied that this was the former "Beinan Township People's Service Cooperative". In the past, due to historical and institutional factors, the party and the country had the same mission, so they were adjacent or shared in the same space. Since the response was very formal and did not disclose the source of the land, netizens also wondered whether it was all public land, and one of the pieces was built as a party headquarters.

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Former Beinan Township Mayor Xu Wenwen, who is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, said that in his first year as township mayor, he first checked whether this was improper party property. The result was that "there is no problem with the source, it is a private donation." It turns out that this was donated by the famous "Taitung Lai Family" and the former mayor of Beinan Township, Lai Wancheng.

Lai Wancheng was born in Xuejia, Tainan, in 1926. At that time, some of his folks from Xuejia had moved to Taitung to make a living. His two elder brothers had rented land from the aboriginal people in Lijia with their fellow villagers to farm. When he was 9 years old, he took a boat from Pingtung to Taitung with his father. When he grew up, he entered politics, serving as the highest position of township chief.

In 1974, when the administrative region was restructured and the 10 villages adjacent to Taitung in Beinan Township were merged into Taitung City, Beinan Village, which also had a township office, had to be transferred to Taitung City to become Beinan Village. Lai Wancheng donated 1,500 square meters of private land in Taiping Village, which contributed to the current prosperity of Taiping Village and also built the current public institutions and party headquarters.

The Lai family has a large business in Taitung and is also a traditional large landowner in Taitung. It is currently known that one of the 13th generation of the Lai family is former legislator Lai Kuncheng. According to him, Lai Wan became the 8th generation uncle. However, netizens hope that Lanying can clean up its act and remove the disputed land. Some netizens said, "The Lai family in Taitung donated the land, and the Wu family in Taitung made huge profits from the land. The investigation is still ongoing, and there is a big difference."