Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang of the Democratic Progressive Party was invited tonight to the Minsheng Campus of Taipei University, where he teaches, to give a lecture at the Taipei Mayoral Candidates Forum "Taipei. Infinite City" and dialogue with young people on Taipei's urban governance. The forum also invited Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan, but the Taipei University Student Association stated that it has contacted Chiang's team, but has not yet received a clear reply on whether he will come.
When interviewed before the meeting, Shen Boyang only said that after all, he was giving a speech at a school and would talk more about issues related to young people, and that no decision had been made yet; he then entered into a closed-door discussion. It can be seen from the live broadcast that Shen talked about the "Taipei Research Institute" and related planning extensions during the meeting, and was open to questions. He talked and laughed with the students during the conversation, and the atmosphere was joyful.
Shen Boyang started his lecture by starting from the proposed "Urban Youth Fund" policy, where college graduates can receive a starting capital of NT$500,000. He reminded students of the importance of taking courses in financial management and fraud prevention, and extended it to job hunting, industrial development, urban division of labor, and exchanges in Infinite City. He believes that it is the mayor's basic job to handle all matters in citizens' lives well, and a better mayor should be able to talk freely about his vision for the future.
Shen Boyang mentioned that the current common methods of handling municipal issues include entrusting experts, scholars or institutions to study the bid opening case. The content is also very good, but it may not be put into action. Instead, it is shelved on the shelf with no idea when it will be done. It is easy to lead to spending budget but no concrete results. It just tells the public that something is being done, and the approach should be changed.
He believes that cities need brains to bring together diverse talents to jointly plan various municipal policies in a systematic manner. They cannot rely on the mayor alone. He believes that as long as the capital is willing to do well, it can become a benchmark for the city. He suggested that Taipei follow the example of the Seoul Research Institute in South Korea and the urban think tank in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to establish relevant mechanisms to set general directions, review and formulate regulations by the parliament, and implement them. After that, they can follow the schedule. If the successors can see the implementation results, they will have the opportunity to continue and will not arbitrarily turn over.
Shen Boyang took Amsterdam as an example. The government established a brain think tank and sent hero posts to universities at home and abroad to seek cooperation opportunities. At the same time, it cultivated talents and solved municipal problems. A famous example was the collection of garbage at the pier, because the garbage trucks were too heavy and could easily crush the road. Later, they came up with an innovative solution for autonomous ships to collect and transport garbage. In the process of planning the plan, young students can contribute what they have learned, understand the industry path, accumulate relevant experience and works, and can also help the city solve problems, and then chart the direction of the city, and sail towards a new future together.
He also mentioned that he had previously petitioned the central government to locate the Taiwan Science and Technology Innovation Base (TTA) in Beishike. Combining the above-mentioned "Taipei Research Institute" concept, a talent connection mechanism was established to facilitate investment attraction, and housing facilities were planned simultaneously to form a large-scale settlement and finally gather into an "ecosystem."
He was puzzled that Mayor Jiang Wanan said that artificial intelligence (AI) would be developed in Beishike, and that he would move Songshan Airport to build an AI park and form a technology corridor with the surrounding Nansoft and internal medicine departments. However, the details were not clear enough. He also expressed his feelings. In previous interviews, he only mentioned internal medicine as a solution to traffic jams, but he was criticized for not knowing the sufferings of the people. Now he is being poached until he is 14 years old.
