Since I live in a city with smooth weather, it is quite difficult
for me to imagine the condition of eastern Taiwan Taiwan Su-Hua Highway Taiwan Taiwan
In order to get a better understanding about the eastern side of Taiwan Su-Hua Highway
I think that the reason why people call eastern Taiwan under-developed is that the Taiwan Hualien
County Hualien
County are occupied by Central Mountains Taiwan
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Typhoon Megi did cause a major catastrophe in Taiwan especially for people who lived in and just traveled around Ilan and Hualien. I could barely read the news related to Typhoon Megi without knitting my brow in deep sorrow in the following days after the disaster happened. In fact, the Suhua Highway has long been prone to disaster, culminating with the rockslides on Oct. 21 that resulted in its collapse and heavy casualties.
ReplyDeleteFrom that day on, the passage toward Hualien had been completely blocked. Therefore, thousands of angry protestors hailing from Hualien County revealed their resentment against the governors and urged the government to expedite the rebuilding process of the Suhua Highway. And the Suhua Highway passed environmental probe right after protests which broke the record as the fastest ever preliminary environmental evaluation.
According to my observation, residents in Hualien used to be dogged by typhoon and earthquake. Just as you’ve mentioned, reasons why these poor consequences happened to residents in Hualien are because of the fragile geological structure and it’s where the Central Mountain Range located. For most of typhoons all invade from the eastern Taiwan and the height of Central Mountain Range avoids people in western Taiwan suffering from lots of disaster, we people like us who live in western Taiwan are able to lead a more comfortable life. However, people who grow up in eastern Taiwan won’t be pessimistic about their living environment. Instead, people who grow up in eastern Taiwan tend to be positive for they’re able to put up with all the uncontrollable things.
When it comes to casualties, there are a group of travels from China . They are victims of the collapse of Su-Hua Highway . When the relief operations are proceeding, it is no matter who is a Taiwanese, and who is a Chinese. The first priority is to rescue those who are in danger.
DeleteSince eastern Taiwan is at the intersection of Eurasian Plate and Philippine Sea Plate, there are plenty of earthquakes. Typhoons which hit Taiwan usually come from the Pacific Ocean, which is at the right side of Taiwan . When the two elements combined, it may cause serious disaster.
Based on our task, here are some questions for you: “If you were the next governor of Yi-Lan or Hualien County , what would be the top priority of your service? How is your plan going to help both the local people and Taiwan ?” From the two questions, I would like to know what your idea is.
If I were the next governor of Yi-Lan or Hualien County, I will definitely devote myself to seeding up the completion of Suhua Highway for we should never block their way home. As for the policy of helping the local people in Yi-Lan or Hualien, helping them to reconstruct their homes attacked by the great rainfall and landslide should be the governor’s duty. Just as you’ve mentioned before, I’ll ask people who live in highly dangerous places to move in safer residences temporarily. And I believe that there should be standard which has been set for subsidizing the victims. Honestly speaking, I don’t quite get the idea about what do you mean by helping Taiwan? However, I do have some suggestions for Taiwan government when dealing with the requests that made by Chinese government.
ReplyDeleteRecently, the Chinese authorities ask Taiwan government to set tombstone for Chinese victims who were dead from the unpredictable accident. Actually, I don’t regard it as Taiwan government’s responsibility. It doesn’t mean that I’m merciless or I disrespect those victims. It’s because that it can be a controversial issue for both Taiwanese and Chinese people. Moreover, I totally agree with Premier Wu Den-yih’s statement which is that “Government compensation for Chinese victims of accidents in Taiwan must be based on reciprocity, because the issue is also related to the rights of Taiwanese people who meet with accidents in China.”
Suhua Highway is indeed an important project that the government should start right away. Without this path, it is hard for the local residents in eastern Taiwan get back to their home.
DeleteA couple days ago, it was reported that whether the folks of Chinese victims could seek a state compensation. It is another issue for us to think about.