Democratic Progressive Party legislator Qiu Zhiwei called on the government to compile a 100 billion yuan "strengthening economic resilience plan" and don't forget to include it in the cultural publishing industry.

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[Reporter Chen Zhengyu/Taipei Report] National tax collection exceeded NT$450 billion last year. Democratic Progressive Party legislator Qiu Zhiwei appealed today (11th) that the government should provide a budget to take care of the publishing industry. He has received feedback from the industry one after another and looks forward to Among the 380 billion distributable quotas, the 100 billion-yuan "strengthening economic resilience plan" can take into account the publishing industry, which has been severely impacted by the epidemic and has shrunk in scale and weak output value.

In response to international political and economic changes and to stabilize the economy and people's livelihood, President Tsai Ing-wen held a high-level national security meeting at the end of last year to discuss Taiwan's overall economy, industrial difficulties, and people's livelihood.

Of the 380 billion yuan available to the central government, 100 billion yuan will be invested in the "strengthening economic resilience plan" to respond to the impact of global inflation and international economic challenges.

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In this regard, Qiu Zhiwei said that at present, the Ministry of Education does not have a fixed budget to subsidize the purchase of books by small and medium-sized libraries. It is only based on Article 5 of the "Key Points of the National and Preschool Education Department of the Ministry of Education to Subsidize National Primary Schools and National Secondary Schools to Promote Reading Homework", depending on the balance of the funds. Therefore, he has urged the Ministry of Education to discuss the normalization of book purchase funds for school libraries at all levels.

According to the "Analysis Report on School Reading Style and Reading Ability in 110 Years" released by the National Library of China, the survey found that the average annual book purchase expenditure of high school libraries is 190,000 yuan per school; 110,000 yuan for junior middle schools; Converted by the average book purchase funds per teacher and student, it is less than 200 yuan. Compared with the 1,826 yuan per person average book purchase funds in tertiary and college libraries, the funds for junior high schools and primary schools are obviously insufficient.

Based on this, Qiu Zhiwei suggested that in addition to assisting the publishing industry with a budget of 100 billion yuan, a budget should also be provided to schools at all levels to enrich library books, which will help cultivate students' reading habits.

In addition, the Ministry of Culture is promoting the revision of the "Cultural and Creative Industry Development Law", discussing further relaxation of the upper limit of recognized expenses for profit-making business donations, and adding new personal and profit-making business investment deductions.

Qiu Zhiwei said that the publishing industry is included in the cultural and creative industries, but the draft has been deliberated by the Executive Yuan for more than half a year. He called on the Executive Yuan to list it as a priority bill and send it to the Legislative Yuan for review as soon as possible, demonstrating the government's determination to support the publishing industry.

Qiu Zhiwei also quoted the well-known entrepreneur Fukutake Soichiro as saying "making the economy a servant of culture". He emphasized that the seven measures in the 100 billion yuan "strengthening the resilient economy plan" are intended to provide traditional industries and small and medium-sized enterprises with The policy support for transformation is also the timely rain that is urgently needed by the physical book industry that is facing the pressure of e-books and facing the dilemma of transformation under the wave of digitalization.

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