Gov't pledges NT$1.6 billion to rebuild Kaohsiung官立承諾NT $ 1.6十億重建高雄

 


Cabinet spokesman Sun Lih-chyun (孫立群) said that heavy rainfall hit the port city on Thursday and flooded the damaged areas, and Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) ordered Cabinet Secretary-General Lee Shih-chuan (李四川) to Kaohsiung to assist with the progress of reconstruction efforts.

The Kaohsiung City Government recently requested that the Cabinet allocate a budget of NT$1.9 billion to rebuild the city's damaged areas. The Executive Yuan yesterday said after a meeting with the city that they have reached a consensus and Kaohsiung will withdraw NT$300 million from its own emergency funds; the Cabinet will cover the rest of the money.


TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Executive Yuan yesterday announced that the central government will give NT$1.6 billion to the Kaohsiung City Government for reconstruction efforts in the city.
 

Sun quoted Lee as saying that in order to speed up the reconstruction work, it will be divided into eight different projects that will be carried out at the same time.

The Water Resources Agency (WRA) yesterday afternoon delivered 17 water pumps to Kaohsiung to solve the flooding issue, Sun said, adding that the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) also negotiated with Tainan and Pingtung to offer another 20 portable water pumps if required.

Sun went on to say that to prevent any gas leakage from happening again, the Executive Yuan has ordered the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to dispatch inspectors to Kaohsiung to assist with air inspections.

Noting that the weather in Kaohsiung is wet and warm, Sun said the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) also sent officials to Kaohsiung to prevent the possible spread of dengue fever in the city.

Cabinet Attitude Changes

Earlier this week when Kaohsiung requested that the central government offer the NT$1.9 billion, the Executive Yuan first responded that Kaohsiung should exhaust its own emergency funds, its annual budgets and public donations before asking for financial aid. The Cabinet spokesman over the past few days had reiterated several times that it is written into law that Kaohsiung should utilize its own resources first, as Taipei City and Taichung City did.

Given that the Executive Yuan has decided not to make a new set of laws to govern the nation's petrochemical pipelines, not to propose a special budget for Kaohsiung and not to establish a special commission for reconstruction efforts in the city, the Executive Yuan has been criticized and described as “cold-blooded” by opposition lawmakers over the past few days.

It wasn't until yesterday afternoon that the Executive Yuan, for the first time since the explosions, specifically said that Kaohsiung only needs to cover NT$3 million of reconstruction costs while the central government will cover the rest of the NT$1.6 billion.

官立承諾NT $ 1.6十億重建高雄

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2014年8月9日,上午12:01 TWN

台北,台灣 - 行政院昨天宣布,中央財政將給予新台幣1.6十億到高雄市政府在城市重建工作。

高雄市政府日前要求內閣撥出新台幣1.9十億預算來重建城市的受損區域。與他們達成共識,高雄將退出其自身的應急資金新台幣三億元的城市會後,行政院昨天表示; 內閣將覆蓋剩下的錢。

內閣發言人孫立,繼群(孫立群)說,暴雨打在週四的港口城市,淹沒了破損的地方,和總理江依樺(江宜樺)下令內閣秘書長李石傳(李四川)到高雄協助重建工作的進展情況。

週日援引李的話稱,為了加快災後重建工作,將分成將進行的同時八個不同的項目。

經濟部水利署(WRA)昨天下午發表17水泵到高雄來解決水浸問題,Sun表示,並補充說,內政部(MOI),還通過談判與台南,屏東,如果需要提供另外20便攜式水泵。

孫接著說,為防止任何氣體洩漏再次發生,行政院已下令環境保護局(EPA)的派遣核查人員到高雄,協助空中巡查。

他指出,高雄天氣潮濕和溫暖,陽光說,生福利(厚生省)部也派出官員到高雄,以防止登革熱在城市傳播。

內閣態度變化

本週早些時候,當高雄要求中央政府提供新台幣1.9十億,行政院首次回應說,高雄應尋求財政援助之前,用盡了自己的應急基金,其年度預算及公眾捐款。內閣發言人,在過去幾天已多次重申,這是寫進法律高雄應首先利用自身資源,為台北市及台中市做。

鑑於行政院已決定不作一套新的法律來治理國家的石油管道,不要提出高雄市的特別預算,而不是建立在城市重建工作的特別委員會,行政院已被批評並描述為“冷血”由反對派議員在過去數天。

直到昨天下午行政院,為自爆炸的第一次,具體說,高雄只需支付新台幣的重建費用300萬元,而中央財政將支付新台幣1.6十億休息。

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