A new cross-party group of lawmakers has come together to focus on the issue of Taiwan’s aging population. The “Strong Generation Association” has been spearheaded by TPP lawmaker Wu Chun-cheng. But its membership features lawmakers from across the political spectrum. One of its main goals is to encourage older people to return to the workplace, to help manage Taiwan’s labor shortage. The group’s opening event welcomed 200 scholars and experts in the field to mingle with lawmakers from every major party.

The KMT’s Han Kuo-yu, speaker of the Legislative Yuan, made these remarks at the opening of the “Strong Generation Policy and Industrial Development Association,” an initiative of TPP lawmaker Wu Chun-cheng.

Han Kuo-yu
Speaker of the Legislative Yuan
I said, “I must come, because I’m still looking for work after 60. And it seems like there are pretty good jobs coming my way! So I can personally serve as a real-life example for Strong Generation elites!”

Wu brought together lawmakers from across the political spectrum to address Taiwan’s aging population problem, forming this “Strong Generation” group in the legislature. Its deputy leaders are the KMT’s Hung Meng-kai, the DPP’s Chuang Jui-hsiung and the Taiwan People’s Party’s Huang Shan-shan.

Wu Chun-cheng
TPP lawmaker
By the “Strong Generation,” we mean a holistic third chapter of life. We will relate with all the different departments. The Ministry of Labor is raising the “Strong Generation” flag high right now, because we have a dreadful labor shortage. But we can rely on the Strong Generation to return to the workplace.

Ko Wen-je
Taiwan People’s Party chair
Many people ask me about Wu Chun-cheng, and say I don’t know him well, why did I choose him as a legislator-at-large? I once heard him giving a talk. And I said, “The policy you’re proposing here, what you want to do, fits perfectly with the current needs of Taiwan’s society. His mission is to use the Strong Generation plan to face the structures of Taiwan’s population today.”

The “Strong Generation” group plans to hold regular seminars, and use cross-party collaboration to generate policy unity, to help Taiwan step into an aging future with grace.

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