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The Myth of Contraction: When Taipei's Pay Scale Loses to Beijing

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  The Myth of Contraction: When Taipei's Pay Scale Loses to Beijing

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

December 4, 2017

 Translation of an Excerpt

 

Despite the fact that Taiwan's pay scale has been in the doldrums being an open secret, when people learned that the average salary in Taipei is lower than in Beijing, they were still startled that it has actually come to this point! To this development, would the DPP politicians who have been asphyxiating Taiwan's economy with political force, endlessly proclaiming "strive for the economy," but in fact favoring more vicious struggles, truly feel that this is the gift that they have brought to the future of the "naturally pro-Taiwan independence" generation?

 

According to statistics provided by Zhaopin, a human resources supply firm on the Mainland, the average Q3 pay in Beijing ranks the highest among Mainland cities, amounting to RMB9,900 per month, approximately NT$46,000. This figure has overtaken Taipei’s average pay of NT$43,500 per month, and Shanghai, ranking second on the Mainland, follows closely behind with NT$43,000, and perhaps will also surpass Taipei in Q4.

 

Under the vicious smearing of the DPP, the stability and prosperity of Taiwan in the past, however, became the historical sin of authoritarian rule under which party and state had no distinction, so much so that today, the DPP has to use "transformational justice" as a pretext to pursue recovery and purge. However, examining in retrospect the two times the DPP assumed power since its days in opposition, besides shouting loudly the slogan of "loving Taiwan," just what achievements have the DPP left behind to help Taiwan’s economic growth and development? Apart from forestalling and weakening Taiwan's development, what new paths has it explored for Taiwan?

 

Taipei’s average pay has lost to Beijing; this has happened while President Tsai Ing-wen is pushing with all efforts the "New Southward Policy." However, the so-called diversified development or multiple routes she is promoting do not mean we should shut down the great artery our economy relies on for supply and exports, depending instead on bypass surgery to create artificial vessels to infuse blood. Blocking the gate to peaceful cross-Strait exchanges, looking at the world with eyes wide shut, and shouting strive for the economy domestically, could this kind of DPP truly help Taiwan to find a path forward?

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