China Taiwan Network reported on April 7 that according to Taiwan ’s "United Daily News", the lease of the Bade Building where the KMT Central Party Department is located expires at the end of next year. The party has different opinions on whether to renew the lease. Party Chairman Jiang Qichen once advocated that the Kuomintang is no longer a big party and may consider moving to another place after the lease expires. Now that Jiang is determined to be elected, party officials also confirmed that he is indeed "seriously considering" the move.
The Kuomintang party official said that the Kuomintang Central Party Department building currently has a lot of unused space, and the interior is not fully utilized. This shows that there is a need to review the current office space. Based on saving the party ’s financial expenditure and making the space more efficient, Jiang Qichen has requested the Kuomintang Administrative Committee Review as soon as possible and re-plan office space that fits the scale of use, and the party affairs system "preliminarily has ideas."
Kuomintang party officials said that the Kuomintang Central Party Department building space reorganization policy is currently being evaluated in a "removable direction." Party Secretary General Li Ganlong has asked the CBRC to plan for the "target" as soon as possible. In addition to considering the reasonable rent of the new space, the location should not be too far away from the current political and economic center. Zhongzheng and Zhongshan District of Taipei City are still relatively reasonable locations, which is convenient for contacting with the party, think tank, and Taiwan authorities.
The rumored think tank is the relocation option of the Central Party Department. The Kuomintang party officials pointed out that this must first check whether the think tank space is enough to accommodate the units of the Central Party Department. In addition, the think tank building has also been sealed and locked by the "Party Industry Council", and political offense and defense should also be considered. People familiar with the matter revealed that due to these two concerns, think tanks have been ruled out as options. If the Kuomintang Central Party Headquarters is difficult to relocate, party officials said that it will at least activate the current Central Party Headquarters space to make it more efficient to use, or significantly reduce the number of leased floors, consolidate office space and reduce rental expenses.
People familiar with the matter said that the relocation of the Kuomintang Central Party Department is of course a way to make the overall image of the party refreshing, and it will certainly reduce expenditures. However, according to the past experience of relocating the party headquarters, the party ’s cultural and historical information will be greatly lost in the process, especially to Moving from a large space to a small space is inevitable, and it may not be a good thing for the party's sustainable operation.
People familiar with the matter said that at present, the KMT ’s party affairs system has been initially evaluated. In addition to moving, it is also considering a substantial reduction in the number of floors, and the original office space from the B1 to the 5th floor will be leased off the 2, 4, and 5 floors, leaving only B1, The third floor of the building and the party command center is estimated to be more than half of the current central party headquarters rent, and the annual expenditure is more than ten million yuan. Internal assessment, adjusted space arrangement, personnel, finance, general affairs and other non-foreign units are concentrated on the controlled 3rd floor and work next to the office of the party chairman and secretary general. The original conference on the second floor was moved to B1 to share space with the Taipei City Party Office, and the literary conference was changed to the office of the policy meeting office behind the media center on the first floor.
However, the CBRC said that after all, the lease of the Kuomintang Central Party Department by the end of next year, whether it is to move or reduce the existing office space, there is still a little time, and now it is just ahead of time to start the evaluation operation, and it is still in the process of pooling the plans of all parties. Prepare the best space adjustment plan. (China Taiwan Net Li Ning)