Du Wei, the new director of the Taiwan Railway Bureau, took up his post and shouldered the heavy responsibility of taiwan railway reform

According to Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network" on April 28, the new director of the Taiwan Railway Bureau, Du Wei, took office yesterday, relieving the embarrassment of being the acting director of the Taiwan Railway for more than three months since January 16. Due to the fact that the handover ceremony of the new "Minister of Transport" Wang Guocai was criticized by the outside world as too "joyful" last week, the handover ceremony began to pay tribute to the Taroko accident for 30 seconds before the handover ceremony began; Then Wang Guocai served as the supervisor, and Qi Wenzhong, executive secretary of the "Ministry of Communications" and acting director of the Taiwan Railway Bureau, handed over the seal letter to Du Wei, hoping that the "reform of the Taiwan Railway" must be successful. ”

Wang Guocai hopes that the reform will be successful

In his speech, Wang Guocai said that he has known Du Wei for about 30 years, Du Wei started from the grass-roots transportation all the way, knows the most about Taiwan Railway, and expects Du Wei, who has taken over the heavy responsibility of reform, to let the 134-year Taiwan Railway, the old dry and new branches, re-grow, regain the glory and trust of the Taiwan Railway, and at the same time let the transformation of Taiwan Railway, towards the win-win direction of passengers, Taiwan Railways and employees, "I hope this reform must be successful." ”

Qi Wenzhong, the acting director of the Taiwan Railway Bureau for 102 days, said that he thought he was going to assist in the Spring Festival and the Qingming Relief, etc., but he did not expect to encounter a situation that he had never imagined in his official career, and the 0402 Taroko major accident caused 49 deaths and 216 injuries, and 10 people are still hospitalized; In the recovery process after the Taroko accident, he saw the energy of his colleagues in Taiwan Railways and expected to re-polish the signboard of Taiwan Railway.

Vehicle-to-road separation reduces liability losses

Du Wei, the new director of the bureau, said in a speech that the reform of Taiwan Railways is the first priority of safety, including equipment, construction, and traffic; The second is stability, including employee stability and financial stability, financial aspects, can not be attributed to the burden of Taiwan Railways to the DPP authorities subsidies, Taiwan Railways itself should promote the development of dual cores, increase the revenue of the industry and sideline business; The third is transformation, organizational adjustment should be able to be handled under the premise of ensuring the rights and interests of colleagues, and the DPP authorities are determined to do a good job in the reform of Taiwan Railways and will not let Taiwan Railways undertake this work alone.

The outside world believes that the "Executive Yuan" only allocates 5.9 billion yuan (NT$, the same below) to the Taiwan Railway every year, filling in the deep pit, Du Wei stressed that the reform must communicate with the Taiwan Railway Trade Union, and the financial will adopt the "separation of vehicles and roads" accounting practice to reduce the responsibility loss of Taiwan Railway as an operator.

Turning losses into profits through asset development

Wang Guocai said that the accumulated debt of Taiwan Railway is only more than 200 billion yuan, of which more than 140 billion yuan is borrowing and more than 60 billion yuan is the withdrawal of pensions. Now the "Executive Yuan" to raise 5.9 billion to make up for the operating losses and pensions of remote small stations, so more than 60 billion can be gradually reduced to zero, and then through the development of assets to loosen, let it separate the road, slowly turn losses into profits, with surpluses to make up for more than 140 billion liabilities, this is the initial "Executive Yuan" assistance, the future does not rule out if there is a need to give greater assistance.

Wang Guocai also announced yesterday that the future new construction project of Taiwan Railways will be taken over by the Railway Bureau, and the follow-up plan of the "Six-Year Traffic Improvement Plan" will be moved to the Railway Bureau, and it is also hoped that the Railway Bureau will quickly take over the new project, and Taiwan Railway will focus on operation and maintenance work.

Source: Huaxia Graticule