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前半部是连,后半是柯P,主持人Tim Berge问两人一样问题
上周偶然听到这礼拜ICRT Taiwan Talk要访问北市参选人连柯两人(可惜没有冯),就满心
期待,本来是好奇柯P英文到底讲得如何,可惜他是中文受访再由主持人Tim Berge翻成
英文,anyway,以下附上连的英文逐字稿,大家可以评断一下连引以为傲的英文能力到底如
何,用字不难,应该不用翻中文了~
p.s.小弟才疏学浅,有几个地方听不懂他讲啥,如有人听懂,再告知一下,如果有错误也请
不吝告知,文法错就算了,因为他就这样讲的...
Tim: So we are very happy today to be here at the campaign headquarters for
Sean Lien, who is the KMT candidate for the Taipei Mayoral election. Thank
you very much for joining us today, Mr. Lien.
Lien: Hi, Tim. How are you and thank you very much. Happy to have the chance
to talk to all the audience.
Tim: Let's move to question one. So, many are concerned about the rising
housing cost in Taipei. Tell us about your proposal to ensure that affordable
housing is available to city residents.
Lien: The first policy initiative that we proposed was that we're gonna
raise the tax for luxury condos, or in the U.S., people call it luxury tax.
The purpose of doing that is to use this part of tax. The amount of tax after
we increase the tax rate to subsidize those social minority, meaning that
those people that are economically under-privileged or economically weaker.
Those people include, for example, women from domestic violence, abuse, or
single parents, so we're gonna, we're gonna use this tax policy to help
those people and I think these are the ones in this country or in this city
that needs the help the most. And that's the number one part for all the
housing initiative, number two part is that, uh, we're proposing to build
minimal 20,000 units of public housing for younger generation and for people
who live in the city cannot get a proper.. uh.. decent housing. We're gonna
build high-quality condos or high-quality apartments and also within those
proposed sites we are gonna incorporate a lot of social services, like
daycare center for elderly people, childcare center, kindergarten, maybe a
community center. Our purpose is to make sure these social housing can
integrate other existing community, the neighbor communities because in
Taiwan we were realize, especially in Taipei, we realize the difficulty of
building out those project housing is that most likely you’ll run into a lot
of strong opposition from neighboring communities, because in the past a lot
of those communities in Taiwan, especially in Taipei, they kind of look at
the social housing or project housing and the thing …(听呒), this is
something that's gonna damage our real estate price and it's gonna affect
our community negatively, so we wanna minimize that kind of impact.
Tim: Salary has been stagnant for many in Taiwan for over a decade and young
workers have been by far the hardest hit. Do you think that Taipei municipal
government has any role in reversing this trend? What policies would you
propose to help boost salary for young people and prevent the city's talent
from leaving for higher paying jobs and opportunities overseas?
Lien: If you wanna increase the salary or average income for younger
generation, I guess you have to go back to the basic rules of economics, which
is to
create more jobs. Definitely the city government is playing a key role in
creating more jobs. The actual way of doing this is, number one is by
attracting more foreign investment. We kind of notice that a lot of foreign
investment are pulling out of China because of the deteriorating environment
in China, but these investment did not come to Taiwan. So we're gonna try
really hard to attract more foreign investment, more foreign corporations to
r
e-domicile to Taipei, which is key in creating jobs, and also we're gonna
help those people who try to set up their own business, you know, a lot of
younger generation, they wanna create their own companies, we wanna help the
younger generation to have a chance to realize their dreams and goals in
life. Reducing rental costs, for example, we're gonna set up sort of a
incubation center and provide subsidize rent for those new startup companies,
and also we wanna provide the memory(?听呒) services and also consulting from
relevant experts, lawyers or accountants. Also, we cannot forget about the
importance of education. So we also wanna increase the competitiveness of our
younger generations by focusing on educations, especially when it comes to
programs to encourage our students and college students in the city to go
abroad, to study advanced technology and advanced subjects.
Tim: What polices do you think the city should be pursuing to make Taipei an
attractive place to live, for both white-collar and blue-collar workers? And
let’s take these two routes separately, for white-collar foreign workers,
how do you think that Taipei can develop its international competiveness to
attract foreign talent? And for blue-collar workers, what do you think the
city should be doing to make life better for foreign labors and domestic
workers and to ensure smooth integration of foreign spouses into Taiwanese
society?
Lien: This question requires probably one hour to answer, but I'll just cut
it short into one sentence. To make Taipei a more livable city for all the
white-collar and blue-collar alike, and also I guess as a society we need to
be more convenient for foreign immigrants, not just blue-collar immigrants
from some of the South-East Asia. Obviously, we're gonna provide a lot of
subsidy and a lot of social services for those blue-collar immigrants from
south-east Asia. But for white-collar, I guess they need different things,
education. In Taipei, we definitely have some international schools offered ,
pretty high-quality educations, but also the city-wise, you need to be more
convenient to foreigners, for example, English sign, that’s one thing I’m
not very happy about Taipei because I look at street signs I realize it's
very confusing, and that’s been a question for more than ten years. It hasn't
been resolved completely. That's something I'm gonna do, number one. So
you don't wanna people come to Taiwan and get lost all the time, alright?
You wanna people to be able to find their home or hotels. So, those little
details they really counts. And obviously I think we've got better quality
air, you know, clean air as opposed to China or even Hong Kong. But, so, we ar
e
probably gonna do a lot of things like encouraging electric ..(听呒) and
all sort of things, sort of clean energy to further improve our environment,
make it a more livable.. But we need to improve not just on the hardware, but
also software. So, I'll make this community, make this city more dynamic,
more global. I guess that's something we need to work really hard going
forward.
Tim: Finally, both candidates in this election are new comers to politics.
What makes you the most qualified person to lead the city and what
direction w
ill you take it in?
Lien: New ideas. My capability in managing business in the past and also our
goals, I think I can really enforce the policies and that’s something I've
been very proud of myself in the past in the private sectors. And also we
need some new ideas, innovations, ok? We cannot draw on our past glory and
sort of kind of stuck here and not moving forward. And by moving forward, I
think we create a lot of opportunity and that driving force innovation. So, I
think because my background in the private enterprise and as a venture
capitalist and also as a financier, and also as sort of a half-baked
politician, because I was involved in a lot of KMT affairs in the past, I
think I'll be able to bring different sides on the same table and really
work out something better for the future of Taipei.