Heavy rains and natural disasters have severely damaged Kaohsiung, and Jiang Qichen criticized the DPP: Man-made disasters are even more chilling

Affected by tropical low pressure and southwest air currents, heavy rains yesterday bombarded central and southern Taiwan, and many sections of Kaohsiung City collapsed, causing constant public resentment in various places. Jiang Qichen, chairman of the Kuomintang Party, said that it should be clarified whether the DPP authorities spent "forward-looking" NT$100 billion to control water and achieved "puffy winds (big talk)" or whether the local public works departments had neglected it, and the KMT would find out the culprit and find out the truth.

According to Taiwan media reports, as of about 9:00 a.m. on the morning of this day (8), the 24-hour rainfall in Taoyuan District and Liugui District of Kaohsiung exceeded 400 mm, and the Maolin District reached 392 mm. Open for four years, costing about NT$240 million (NT$, the same below), the Ming Ba Kelu Bridge, known as the "Bridge of Hope", was washed away by the overflowing Yusui Creek due to heavy rainfall, resulting in a total of 501 people trapped in the mountains in the three settlements of Taoyuan District, such as Fuxing, Laveland and Meishan.

Although the rain has slowed down slightly this morning, the red alert for mudslides in seven areas, including Liugui and Taoyuan, has not yet been lifted, and there are still nine bridge piers closed. Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Qimai was scheduled to take a black hawk helicopter of the Taiwan military's "Air Service Corps" to go deep into the disaster area this morning to investigate the disaster, but heavy rain suddenly fell at Xiaogang Airport, and the rain did not stop until 12:30 p.m.

"No matter how ferocious the natural disaster is, it is not as chilling as the man-made disaster." Kuomintang Chairman Jiang Qichen said that he watched the rain continue to fall in Kaohsiung, and he continued to receive disasters from all over Kaohsiung, which made him sigh that Kaohsiung had experienced a year of great changes, so that the original mayor Han Kuo-yu and Vice Mayor Li Sichuan had re-laid the foundation for Kaohsiung's basic public works, and there was a huge qualitative change in "lighting, road leveling, and water communication", and all of them went back to the old road of the "823 flood" in the past.

Jiang Qichen pointed out that natural and man-made disasters that should have been avoided were once again in crisis because of the DPP's laxity in the municipal administration, so that the lives and property of the people of Kaohsiung were once again in crisis. Whether the DPP authorities' expenditure of "forward-looking" hundreds of billions of yuan in water control results is all big talk, or whether the local public works departments have neglected it, Jiang Qichen said: The KMT will find out the culprit and find out the truth in the legislature and with the representatives of the local public opinion. (LIN Jingxian. Edit)