Announce Department：General Affairs Department
April 21st, 2011
Reported by journalist Li, C. W./from County government
Control Yuan Members, Mr. Huang and Mr. Liu surveyed the World Heritage eligibility concerning unique historical values and features of South Fujian culture and military culture in Kinmen. For the World Heritage Application, County government invites relevant institutes to make discussions. Control Yuan Member Huang asserted that Kinmen features uniqueness and abundance of South Fujian culture, military culture and huge amount of overseas Kinmen natives. Each individual institute has already made much effort for this World Heritage Application in the past decade. It is necessary to integrate all the preparation performance of all relevant institutes. Kinmen will definitely succeed in wining the first World Heritage Certification for Taiwan.
This application seminar started from 08:30 yesterday in the first meeting hall of County government. The meeting attendees included the meeting chairman, County Mayor, military vice chief commander, Kinmen National Defense Vice Commander, Tourism Bureau Chief of MOTC, and the representatives from Council for Cultural Affairs, and Finance Administration of CPAMI, Kinmen World Heritage Promotion Commissioners, and some history researchers and experts and writers and Kinmen County Culture Bureau Chief and Construction Bureau Chief.
Lots of suggestions and advises were submitted in this meeting concerning Kinmen World Heritage Application. It was discussed all necessary coordination among all responsible institutes and the necessary support from the central government. Kinmen County government has proposed the World Heritage Application as the County priority policy and adjusted Kinmen’s role of critical military outpost in highly rally era to the role of a culture and business center in peace era. All other necessary support include: the central government providing all the necessary support and policy enactment, evaluating the qualification requirement for World Heritage Application, coordination with National Defense Dept. and promoting nationwide support and efforts for successful achievement of this World Heritage Application, etc.
All relevant institutes have made much efforts for this World Heritage Application in the past few years. However, all of the efforts and resources shall be integrated for reaching best efficient and avoidance of unnecessary conflicts. All of the resources shall be used with the highest efficiency. Local government does play a critical role in this case. The important strategies also include promoting nationwide support and consensus, insuring the Taiwan’s sovereignty for Application and avoidance of China’s political interference and coordination with the central government’s goal-implementation procedures.
A history expert Mr. Liu expressed that he has irreplaceable feeling for Kinmen. He witnessed the miraculous central underground tunnel construction in 1984.. He is amazed at Kinmen’s world exclusive military positioning, and enrichment of South Fujien culture uniqueness and the feature of huge amount of overseas Kinmen natives. The central government’s relevant institutes must be able to enact definite policies for insuring Kinmen’s successful achievement of Taiwan’s First World Heritage Application.
County mayor Li smiled saying that he feels “pretty stressful” due to all Control Yuan Memebers’ aspiration. He will do his best for supervising and coordinating all relevant institutes. All institutes to make self-reviewing periodically for accelerating achieving this goal. He strongly believes the nationwide efforts and support will definite contribute to the success.
The important discussion in the meeting include the following: Chief executive Mr. Chiang’s emphasis of worldwide fame of Kinmen’s Kaoliang Liquor; definite necessity for integrating and strengthening nationwide support and efforts for this application; the ever increasing value depreciation of tangle materials in contrast with the ever increasing value appreciation of .the unique and irreplaceable intangible Kinmen culture heritage with time accumulation; . enhancement of propaganda for intangible culture heritage preservation and protection by Kinmen County; enacting the World Heritage Application as the top priority administration policy of Kinmen County; establishing an application promotion organization for devising the implementation procedures; Kinmen owning the best qualification for wining Taiwan’s First World Heritage Application; establishing a World Heritage Research Center by National QUEMOY University; establishing a cross-institute centralized promotion institute by the central government; changing Kinmen’s role of critical military outpost in the era of rally to the role of culture and business communication island in the era of peace; the urgency for the World Heritage Application Institute’s enacting definite implementation procedures; the central government’s comprehensive consideration for the policy amendment; the local government’s duty for enacting integral education, training and communication in concert with the central government’s policy.
Kinmen National Defense Vice Commander has just issued a new order concerning “Policy for Replacing Era of Rally by Era of Peace” in the military zones. He emphasized that the local government can apply for land appropriation. Such lands can just be returned to the military in case of national defense justification. Vice Chief Commander also indicated that the Ministry of National Defense has already issued the order instructing all relevant institutes full cooperation for World Heritage Application and participation in the application team to offer all necessary assistance. There have already released out 309 military plots so far. County Construction Bureau Chief emphasized that the top priority policy is traditional architecture preservation and maintenance. There have already conducted 420 maintenance and repair projects from year 2001 until the last year. The construction inspection and acceptance for 315 preservation projects have already been finalized legally. However, the current historical architecture maintenance and repair capacity can’t keep pace with the huge amount of the remaining application cases. Hopefully, the military can release the Chien-Hua military zone to the County government for establishing a traditional engineer and technician training center.
The Finance Administration Chief asserted that Kinmen does own high qualification for World Heritage Application. The implementation procedures shall be well organized with accumulated experiences. The Cultural Heritage General Administration Chief emphasized the importance of making international comparison to emphasize Kinmen being as eligible as any other World Heritage venues in the world, strong propaganda for interpreting Kinmen’s historical values to the world. Another opinion in this meeting is: every Kinmen resident shall take the lead in devotion for successful achievement of this World Heritage Application.