Taoyuan steps up to prompt refinery relocation

The China Post
Date: June 19, 2016
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) on Saturday announced that the special municipality’s government has set up a team whose role is to speed up the relocation of state-run oil supplier CPC Corp.’s (中油) refinery in Taoyuan, the Central News Agency (CNA) reported.

Cheng claims the corporation had promised to relocate the refinery 13 years ago, and Taoyuan residents deserve to see that promise pan out.

When CPC Chairman Lin Sheng-chung (林聖忠) visited the local government and mentioned the company had given the local community a sum of more than NT$10 million, Cheng told him Taoyuan residents were not beggars and offering money was a joke, the CNA said.     [FULL  STORY]

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