Taipei City Councilor Wu Peiyi criticized Jiang Wanan for setting up the Youth Bureau a few days ago, and found out that Jiang Wanan had never held a meeting of the Youth Committee after he took office.

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[Reporter Wei Jinyun/Taipei Report] Before the election last year, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an proposed the establishment of the Youth Bureau. After taking office, he was criticized as "empty talk". The last meeting was on December 20 last year. Jiang Wanan was criticized for not holding a meeting of the Youth Committee after taking office, which violated the rule of holding a meeting every three months. "Is Mayor Jiang still sleeping?"

The Taipei City Government emphasized that Jiang Wanan has attached great importance to youth issues since he took office. The Youth Committee has scheduled a committee meeting on Youth Day on the 29th of this month, which is in line with the norms.

Following Wu Peiyi's recent criticism of Jiang Wan'an's political views of setting up the Youth Bureau, he also found that Jiang Wan'an had never held a meeting of the Youth Committee after he took office.

She pointed out that according to the 4th point of the establishment of the Taipei City Youth Committee, the meeting must be held every three months. Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe took office on December 20 last year.

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Wu Peiyi pointed out that last year the Youth Committee held a total of 4 meetings, each of which was completed within the specified time. This year it was Jiang Wanan's turn to be the chairman. In March, it violated the city government’s regulations and bombarded that “the current youth committee is useless, and Jiang Wan’an has no intention of promoting youth affairs.”

Wu Peiyi emphasized that the Youth Committee is currently the most important channel for the city government to understand the needs of young people and plan youth policies. Now that Jiang Wan'an is the chairman, it should have more resources and rights to promote youth affairs, but not only can't see new things, Even the existing meetings were suspended and out of operation, angrily criticizing Jiang Wanan's youth policy as a reverse, and bombarding Jiang Wanan for saying that he valued youth but doing nothing.

Taipei City Government Deputy Spokesman Hsu Cheng-sin responded that Jiang Wan'an has attached great importance to youth issues since he took office, and the promotion of youth affairs has never stopped. The Youth Committee issued a meeting notice on the 16th of this month and scheduled it to be held on the Youth Day on March 29th. The committee meeting is in line with the norm of meeting once every three months.

Xu Zhengxuan said that according to the organizational division of labor, the Youth Committee includes four groups: the Youth Development Group, the Youth Family Group, the Lohas City Group, and the Tourism and Volunteer Group. In the past three months, the opinions of the youth have been collected and compiled into relevant proposals .

Xu Zhengxuan added that the regulation is for a period of 3 months, and there is no special limit to "within 3 months". The four meetings held last year were on March 28, June 27, September 27, and December 20. is during 3 months.