County Councilor Lai Zemin asked the county government to fight for the Taiwan Lantern Festival again.

[Reporter Zhang Congqiu/Changhua report] DPP county councilors Ye Guoxiong, Lai Zemin, Zhuang Shenghan and others are questioning the county government at the county council today, asking the county government to re-fight for the right to host the Taiwan Lantern Festival. With a sense of honor, Lai Zemin fought for the Taiwan Lantern Festival in Yuanlin City to create business opportunities for Yuanlin people to make tourism money.

Ye Guoxiong used many major projects such as Zhangnan MRT, Dapu Intercept Ditch Widening Project, and Lugang River Reconstruction. The construction was stagnant and idling for four years, and the county government was bombarded for its poor execution. Among them, the Dapu Intercept Ditch embankment project has long been Over 4 years, the bid has failed 5 times, and the project has been delayed again and again.

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After the conversation changed, Ye Guoxiong cut into the fact that Changhua County gave up the right to host the Taiwan Lantern Festival four years ago, and lost the opportunity to market Changhua.

He said that Taichung Mayor Lu Xiuyan was able to take the Taiwan Lantern Festival as a political achievement, and said sourly that "no one wanted to do it back then." ".

Lai Zemin pointed out that the Taiwan Lantern Festival has not been held in Changhua for four years, and the county government threw it back to the central government for lack of money, funds, and subsidies. Now the mayor of Taichung can trumpet the lantern festival as a political achievement. In the eyes of the people of Changhua, it is a shame!

"The county magistrate doesn't do it for someone else!"

Zhuang Shenghan also said that the county government is connected horizontally and vertically, and Changhua lacks marketing. Changhua is ridiculed by netizens as the most boring tourist county. The number of visitors to Taichung for the Taiwan Lantern Festival has reached a new high. Changhua needs a big campaign to find lost tourists.

The councillors took turns to ask questions. Wang Yingqi, director of the City View, said that the process of organizing the Taiwan Lantern Festival by the central government requires the Bureau of Tourism to issue conditions before allowing local governments to apply. "We can win if we want to." The upper limit is not more than 35 million yuan, and the lantern festival funding is at least 600 million to 700 million yuan, and the subsidy is a drop in the bucket. The county magistrate has instructed that the future will be based on the direction of the epidemic prevention policy, the opening policy is clear, and whether the subsidy fund is increased or not, and then the application will be submitted according to the situation, which has not yet been submitted.

County Councilor Ye Guoxiong today questioned the county magistrate Wang Huimei. The mayor of Taichung took the Taiwan Lantern Festival as a political achievement and complained that no one wanted to hold it back then.

(provided by the county council)