# Premier Lai approves NT$227.1 billion for Forward-looking Infrastructure phase 2

Date: 2018

## The fact

In late July 2018 Premier Lai approved a NT$227.1 billion budget for the second phase (2019–2020) of the Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program, including NT$72.7 billion for urban and rural works, plus green-energy, digital, water, rail, and childcare lines, to be sent to the Legislative Yuan. He did not sit as every municipal contractor. Tsai remained president.

## Context

Phase 1 under Premier Lin Chuan sat as parent. Neighbouring 2017 independence interpellation is a different premier file. He did not write every kerb.

26 September 2017 interpellation is neighbouring premier weather. 2016 Tainan mayoralty is parent career.

The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles and commander-in-chief. He does not write a PLA communique, a TSMC capex print, or a Legislative Yuan majority. A National Day address is not a completed interceptor. An inaugural line is not a PLA missile. A special-act press conference is not a passed statute. [William Lai](/people/lai-ching-te) is a common English name for the same person; the stored English name is Lai Ching-te.

## Evidence and sources

Executive Yuan ROC (Taiwan) carries the official instrument or communique. Taipei Times records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism) and renewable-adjacent build: a completed premier special-budget approval.

## What is established and what is not

Established: July 2018 phase-2 approval, independently reported; NT$227.1 billion named.

Not established: a unique later growth coefficient from that Monday, or that every rail uniquely opened that year.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Tsai’s programme sat as parent. The LY still had to vote. Cities implement.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Premier Lai approves NT$227.1 billion for Forward-looking Infrastructure phase 2, not a later speech about Premier Lai approves NT$227.1 billion for Forward-looking Infrastructure phase 2.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Premier Lai approves NT$227.1 billion for Forward-looking Infrastructure phase 2 on 2018-07-30 is not a licence to treat every later Executive Yuan ROC (Taiwan) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Premier Lai approves NT$227.1 billion for Forward-looking Infrastructure phase 2 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He approved as premier. Tsai’s programme sat as parent. The LY still had to vote. Cities implement. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Lai Ching-te: https://factrail.ai/people/lai-ching-te

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Renewable capacity buildout: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-renewable-buildout

## Sources

- https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2018/07/30/2003697649
- https://english.ey.gov.tw/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-lai-forward-2018