Taiwan's administrative districts to be redrawn

In order for the demarcation plan to be enforced smoothly, quite a few relevant laws, rules and regulations, such as local autonomy administration law, and finance income and expense allocation rules, have to be legally revised.

Officials with the Ministry of the Interior said that the ministry will soon forward a set of revisions to the autonomy administration law to the Legislative Yuan for deliberation and ratification.

Meanwhile, Wang Yu-chi, spokesman for the Presidential Office, said denied speculations that the administrative districts redrawing is to cater to a plan to merge Taichung city and county into a single administrative district, which the Cabinet said earlier could be done by 2010.

Also yesterday, Taipei County Magistrate Chou Hsi-wei said that if the goal of three metropolises and 15 counties is implemented, his county will be willing to work with the policy.

But he also said the central government should coordinate with local governments to clearly define their respective rights and responsibilities.

Tainan Mayor Hsu Tain-tsair, who has harbored the hope of merging his city with Tainan County and having it upgraded to a municipality, expressed disappointment yesterday about the possible redrawing.

Attending a cerebration for the 110th anniversary of the founding of National University of Tainan, Hsu said the city, a cultural capital, plays a major role in Taiwan's history and that “if its status is downgraded, the government will be a sinner in the nation's history.”

But Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, who attended the same event, said Hsu's remarks were over the top and that the conditions under which the city and county could be merged and upgraded are not ripe yet.

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