SHARE THE WEALTH: Increases to minimum wage and minimum hourly pay would enable workers to benefit from an improving GDP, Vice Premier Shih Jun-ji said
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 28, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
Premier William Lai (賴清德) yesterday proposed redefining administrative zones to balance
Children play at a kindergarten in Taipei yesterday, as Premier William Lai pledged that the government would implement childcare subsidies to address the nation’s low birthrate. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
urban and rural development, and introducing a population policy to boost the declining birth rate as the Executive Yuan’s priorities next year.
Lai recounted the Cabinet’s achievements over the past year at an end of year news conference, saying that his policies are oriented toward developing the economy, promoting renewable energy sources and technology, as well as achieving social justice, and promoting security and cultural policies.
He said he would prioritize a fertility policy, drug and crime prevention, and balancing urban and rural development as the Cabinet’s goals next year.
The government is to begin evaluating how administrative regions could be rezoned to alleviate the unequal distribution of resources in rural areas, he added. [FULL STORY]
