Taipei Times
Date: Mar 25, 2015
By: staff reporter Huang Tai-lin

Despite its limited financial resources compared to other special municipalities, Tainan in

Tainan Mayor William Lai, center foreground, wearing a suit, is surrounded by a crowd at a book-signing event in Tainan on Feb. 15. Photo: Tsai Wen-chu, Taipei Times

recent years has constantly been voted as the best city in the nation in media surveys rating residents’ sense of well-being and the performance of local governments. In a recent interview with ‘Taipei Times’ staff reporter Huang Tai-lin, Tainan Mayor William Lai talked about his approach to governance. In part one of a two-part interview, Lai discusses his aspiration to build the city into the nation’s cultural capital via city branding — the ‘Tainan brand’

Taipei Times: You were a doctor before becoming a politician. Does that experience provide you with a different perspective when tackling governance and interacting with the public?

William Lai (賴清德): There are three “spirits,” so to speak, that I adhere to in my role as a mayor when implementing governance.     [FULL  STORY]