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Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan and Taichung Mayor Lu Hsiu-yen have recently faced municipal criticism, with politicians calling out their respective governance shortcomings.
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan has been involved in many municipal controversies. Former President Chen Shui-bian named him, "Wenan has three treasures: blueberries, sugar cane, and memorizing wrong manuscripts." Many people laughed. Taichung Mayor Lu Hsiu-yan has three months left in her term. Today, Taichung City Council Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Zhou Yonghong took stock of the major construction projects during her eight years in power, such as the MRT Blue Line, which could not cover 1 centimeter, and food safety inspection problems, alleging that Lu Hsiu-yan also has three treasures: "swine fever, garbage, and random things."
Lu Xiuyan said that when she took office, the borrowing space was only 8.8 billion, which was "not even enough to fill the gap between teeth." There was so much construction to be done, but she still completed the Convention and Exhibition Center and Green Beauty. Taichung has launched all seven MRT lines. During her tenure, almost all major projects were started before they could be started and completed before they could be completed.
Chen Shui-bian named Jiang Wanan, a serial municipal government contractor, as having three treasures: "blueberries, sugar cane, and memorizing wrong manuscripts." Today, Zhou Yonghong had a physical examination and Lu Xiuyan, who had been in power for eight years, also had "three treasures." The city government's budget has increased sharply every year. When he took office in 2019, the total budget of the city government was 1,246. 5.6 billion yuan, which has increased to 198.005 billion yuan this year, but there has been no corresponding improvement in municipal construction. Counterattacks include improper handling of sexual harassment cases on campus, sexual harassment in the city’s workplace, the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi gas explosion case, and a boom falling off a MRT track, among other major public security incidents.
Zhou Yonghong also said that major construction has been delayed, but Lu Xiuyan has been bombarding the central government all day long for cutting funds, but the MRT Blue Line has actually "not advanced by 1 centimeter" and there is no progress. There are also food safety and epidemic prevention storms, and the cancer-causing storm of China United Oil It has not taken the initiative to carry out random inspections. Last year, there was an outbreak of African swine fever. The problems are all in "showing off but not testing", the sequelae of "swallow lake" of food waste, huge mountains of garbage, and only organizing celebrations and marketing, all of which have been reduced to the mayor's personal marketing.
Zhou Yonghong pointed out that netizens ridiculed Lu Xiuyan as a "CPU (Central Processing Unit)" and would blame the central government when encountering problems. Lu Xiuyan also has three treasures, which are "swine fever, garbage, and messing around."

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