"Long-term planning is needed for the relocation of Songji" Baidu committee member Xu Zhongxin: Jiang Wanan should not have raised the slogan until the election

The Legislative Yuan People's Caucus held a press conference today on "The government blatantly defrauded the rights of the military and police and the votes were delayed." The caucus secretary-general Hong Yuxiang (3rd from left) and legislator Hsu Chung-xin (1st from left) and others responded to the question of the proposed move. (Photo by reporter Chen Yikuan)

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan, who is seeking re-election, recently launched the "Songshan Airport Relocation" plan without warning, advocating converting it into an AI industrial park and freeing the skyline height limit, triggering discussions from all walks of life. People's Party legislator Xu Zhongxin stressed in an interview today that relocating the airport is a long-term plan and that Chiang Kai-shek should "just shout slogans" during the election. Hong Yuxiang, secretary-general of the party group and legislator Hong Yuxiang, said that the case cannot be completed by the Beijing Municipal Government alone, and called on the central and local governments to plan well so that better results can be achieved.

The People's Party caucus held a press conference today (13) on "The government blatantly defrauded the rights of the military and police and delayed votes." The caucus chief Chen Qinglong, deputy chief congressman Chen Zhaozi, secretary-general Hong Yuxiang, as well as legislators Xu Zhongxin, Cai Chunci, Wang Anxiang and Liu Shubin attended. After the meeting, he accepted joint interviews with the media on current affairs.

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Former Executive Yuan Political Affairs Councilor Zhang Jingsen said on Facebook yesterday (12) that the Democratic Progressive Party has advocated the relocation of the government for more than 30 years. Now Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan of the Kuomintang has also raised the matter. Green camp members expressed their opposition like a "knee-jerk reaction", bluntly saying that the Democratic Progressive Party can even change its own policies "because of elections. What will voters think?" In this regard, the media pointed out that the National Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Legislative Yuan will announce (14) that it will invite the Ministry of National Defense and the Civil Aviation Administration of the Ministry of Transport to report on the issue of the Songji relocation proposal, and quoted this matter to ask the opinions of the public caucus.

"Basically, we support the general direction and principles," Hong Yuxiang, secretary-general of the party group, responded. Songji relocation must have advantages and disadvantages. Whether it is AI, finance, technology, or even major construction such as housing and parks, it has the opportunity to be settled; it can also run through east-west, north-south traffic, relieve the traffic bottleneck in the inner lake, and is expected to remove the height limit line and bring a new look to the north city. However, the operation of military airports, schools for residents on outlying islands, medical care and disaster prevention systems cannot be completed by the Taipei City Government alone. It involves inter-ministerial units such as the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry of National Defense. We call on the central and local governments to plan well so that better results can be achieved.

"If you say that the relocation of Songshan Airport is exclusive to the DPP, then you don't understand Taiwan at all," said legislator Hsu Zhongxin, and pointed out that Zhang Jingsen's article ignored one point, which is today's people's livelihood community, including Songjiang Road, Fuyuan Street, as well as Minquan East Road, Minsheng East Road, Jianjian Road and Nanjing East Road were the "second runway of Songshan Airport" during the Japanese colonial period. However, after the Nationalist Government came to Taiwan, they were rebuilt due to the decline in demand for flights to Tokyo. They emphasized that the issue of relocating the airport requires long-term planning and "is not something to be used to shout slogans during political elections."