Investment and business issues have dominated the the Kaohsiung Mayoral by-election. KMT candidate Jane Lee criticized the Kaohsiung Government was slow in attracting businesses and investments. DPP candidate Chen Chi-mai said he was experienced in this aspect while Taiwan People's Party candidate Wu Yi-jheng said amending to the laws and sustainability are key issues.


DPP candidate for the Kaohsiung Mayoral by-election Chen Chi-mai was busy soliciting votes at local markets before visiting temples. In response to KMT candidate Jane Lee's remarks in a radio interview that the reason for Taichung's population surpassing the population of Kaohsiung, originates from problems with attracting businesses and investments.

Attracting businesses is just a slogan. The hard part is to implement and execute the plans. The plan needs to have continuity and what's equally important is to detail how to attract businesses to invest in Kaohsiung.

I was responsible for coordinating related large scale economic development at the national level when I was the Vice Premier. Therefore I am very confident.

Taiwan People's Party candidate Wu Yi-jheng thinks the final beneficiary in attracting businesses to Kaohsiung would still be the Central government. He urged the Kaohsiung legislators to push forward with the law amendment and believed that sustainability is also needed in attracting businesses.

The problem of Kaohsiung's fiscal problem is a structural health. First, the local government and the mayor doesn't know how to deal with it. Second, the economic development trend of the world is focused on the environment and industries with high added-values. Kaohsiung should aimed at attracting these type of talents and industries and not just attracting any business.

Jane Lee backfired by stating that the position of Kaohsiung Mayor was mostly filled by the DPP and that Taiwan deserves more than one party's opinion. She is looking at fighting a different war. Wu Yi-jheng agreed that the DPP has ruled Kaohsiung for a long time but has not given anything back to its residents. In response to these, Chen Chi-mai said Kaohsiung is a democratic and diversified city which had given Mayor Han Kuo-yu a chance.



跑完市場拜票，又到廟宇參拜，民進黨高雄市長候選人陳其邁一早依舊行程滿滿，對於國民黨候選人李眉蓁接受廣播電台訪問時，提及高雄市人口被台中超越，是因為招商引資問題，雙方隔空交火。

國民黨高雄市長補選候選人 李眉蓁表示：「招商都是一個口號，都是講要做其實是很難。怎麼樣前面講了，然後後面的延續性，怎麼樣招商來投資高雄，也是很重要的。」

民進黨高雄市長補選候選人 陳其邁表示：「我過去在行政院，就是負責協調整合相關這些，國家級大型經濟建設的負責人，所以我也非常有信心。」

民眾黨候選人吳益政則認為，高雄再盡力招商，最終得利還是中央，呼籲高雄市立委要督促修法，而且招商也要有永續思維。

民眾黨高雄市長補選候選人 吳益政表示：「高雄的財政、經濟問題，是一個結構問題。第一個，政府不懂、市長不懂。第二個，在世界潮流經濟發展的趨勢，是要做環保跟所謂產業高附加價值，高雄要找這樣的人才跟產業進來，不是傻傻去招商到處亂跑。」

過去高雄市長期由民進黨執政，李眉蓁批評，台灣不應該只是一言堂，要打一場不一樣的選戰，證明高雄不是綠到出汁，吳益政也認同民進黨長期綁架高雄，卻沒有給予回饋，對此陳其邁則回擊，高雄不是一言堂，不然怎麼會給韓市長機會，高雄是一個民主多元奔放的城市。