Taipei Times
Date: Nov 06, 2017
By: Chen Yu-fu / Staff reporter
Lawmakers have questioned what they said was unreasonably low rents paid by the
The China Youth Corps flag stands outside the Ching-kuo Memorial Hall on the corps’ grounds in Taipei on Oct. 31. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
China Youth Corps for state-owned land and youth activity centers, calling for the properties’ retrieval once their leases expire.
The corps has been renting 12 youth activity centers nationwide and the Kuan Yun Youth Hostel in Hualien from government agencies and state-run institutions, an investigation by the Executive Yuan’s Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee has found.
The landlords range from the Ministry of Finance’s National Property Administration (NPA), the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Water Resources Agency and the Council of Agriculture’s Forestry Bureau, to the Taipei and New Taipei City governments, state-run Taiwan Water Corp and National Taiwan University.
Most noteworthy is a 6,683m2 plot of land in Hualien County’s Sioulin Township (秀林) leased to the corps by the NPA for NT$163,656 (US$5,424) per year, or NT$6.7 per ping (3.3m2) per month. The land houses the Tienhsiang Youth Activity Center, which is essentially a hostel. [FULL STORY]