"One house, two deer, three ships", this is the order of Taiwan's development, from Tainan Province, central Changhua Lukang to the final Taipei Ship, The Ship is the current Wanhua District, is the earliest development of Taipei's old town, located in the southwest of Taipei City, during the Qing Dynasty was the base camp where Quanzhou people gathered. The entire Wanhua District has spread outwards with the famous Longshan Temple as the center, and Wanhua can also be said to be a microcosm of old Taipei, which has gone through the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese occupation era, and the restoration to the present. Wanhua Street Longshan Temple next to the nomadic people gathered in the street, they witnessed the prosperity of Taipei City and the ups and downs of life, so as long as foreign tourists come to visit around Longshan Temple, on one side is the bustling Mengjia Night Market, on the other side of the road is the homeless Mengjia Park, which is a microcosm of Taipei's more than 100 years since its founding.
Seemingly homeless people who are wandering the streets, taipei city government social workers will organize homeless people to become guides in the local business district, because the most important thing for this group of homeless people is to encourage them to return to society. After training, many nomadic uncles in Mengjia Park have become a popular guide for tourists by virtue of their own experience in the historical development of the old Taipei Mengjia business district, infecting visitors with their personal experiences and stories, so that tourists around the world can no longer just eat night markets and shop, but also know Mengjia by their own stories.
Of course, such a training mechanism is a very humane and effective mechanism for reintegrating homeless people into society. But the bottom line is Taiwan's economic problems, especially in recent years, where there has been a trend toward younger street and beggars. My family lives in the Tamsui Zhuwei area of New Taipei City, Near Taipei, and the overpass in front of Zhuwei Station is crowded with people going to the city every day. I have lived in high school for more than ten years, but the last time I returned home, I found a phenomenon, there was a young lame beggar on the overpass, this is the first time in more than ten years and the only time so far, in the past Taipei beggars only appeared in Wanhua and Taipei Station, but this time they appeared in the Bamboo Wai area on the outskirts of Taipei, the reaction in the heart is only heartache and sadness, Taiwan has really become poor? Is Taiwan really not working? A lot of reactions kept swirling in my heart.
Looking back at the more than two years since Tsai Ing-wen came to power, she claims that Taiwan's economy has reached its best period in two decades, and the salary level is also the best ever, behind all kinds of seemingly bright data, but taiwan's economy can not say the secret. In fact, Taiwan's economy is still in a low-end state, the economic downturn has been more than twenty years, the old capital that created the first of the four Asian tigers in the past Taiwan's economic miracle is about to be eaten, and young people in Taiwan cannot see the future in Taiwan. In the street to see the young beggars and full of street doll machine shops, every time I return to Taiwan, I only see the "small and fortunate" Noh Province, and the topic of exchange when meeting with old friends can only sigh that the salary is not rising, and finally everyone has to laugh helplessly, hoping to be able to go to the mainland at the right time to see the intrusion, because the idea in everyone's heart is to hope to live a better life.
Finally, I would like to say that the senior members of the ruling authorities in Taiwan are invited to go to society more often and take a closer look, to really suffer the suffering of the people, and not to do unnecessary struggles and internal friction for the election. (Author: Luo Dingjun, Taiwan student, currently a doctoral student at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University)
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