The 83-year-old grandmother was elected as a member of parliament to protect the Qiaotou Sugar Factory Forest and asked President Lai for orders outside the National Day matinee.

"Forest Grandma" Jiang Huangnuo is 83 years old. However, she saw that the hundreds of hectares of forest green space in Qiaotou Sugar Factory in Kaohsiung were likely to be converted into residential and commercial land. Therefore, she decided to run for parliament this year and became the oldest candidate in Kaohsiung. She chose today (10th), the National Day, as her birthday. She went north to outside the Presidential Palace to ask Lai Qingde for help, hoping to turn this green space with 100,000 trees into a state-owned forest.

Jiang Huangnu pointed out that because there were no public representatives in Gangshan, Qiaotou, Kaohsiung, who were willing to protect the forest green space of Qiaotou Sugar Factory, she had no choice but to stand for election despite her advanced age. Her only political opinion was to protect the old sugar factory trees that had been with her for 83 years, as well as the hundreds of hectares of forests around her. She hoped to give birth to a forest park and not because of the Kaohsiung New Town. The third phase of the planning was changed to residential and commercial land, and the 60-meter road also hopes to be narrowed and rerouted; she held a birthday wish event on Ketagalan Avenue this morning and made a wish: "The forest will last forever and benefit future generations." Dozens of members of the "Forest Grandma National Support Association" were also present to support her.

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Fang Jian, chairman of the Green Consumer Foundation, said that seeing the 83-year-old Grandma Chiang running for election to protect the green space of the Qiaotou Sugar Factory made her laugh and cry. There are really almost no people in Taiwan, and it is the turn of the super-super-old grandmas to come out and fight. The reason why Taiwan cannot survive is due to the rise in housing prices over the past 40 years due to land speculation and the black gold regime game behind it. Young people who have no money or houses cannot afford to raise children.

Zhuang Jieren, secretary-general of the Forest City Association, said that there are still nearly 400 hectares of idle land around the third phase of Kaohsiung New Town. Kaohsiung’s population has been declining for 10 consecutive years. As a result, the government insists on destroying 154 hectares of the country’s forest green space, destroying 100,000 trees and 100 hectares of forest, and destroying the century-old Qiaotou Sugar Factory, just to change the land for luxury housing. Is this reasonable? Call on President Lai to stop this project and turn it into a national urban forest demonstration area.

Feng Yalei, the founder of the Earth Garden Project, said that she firmly believes that real urban development should not be based on the deprivation of natural habitats. In the face of the rapidly changing climate crisis, society must turn to "ecological civilization" to practice a new model of symbiosis with nature and harmony with people. The 100-hectare forest is Kaohsiung's irreplaceable green lung and natural flood detention pond, and it is a precious natural capital that must be left to the next generation. Protecting the forest is protecting the future.