Minister Without Portfolio Wu Tze-cheng (吳澤成) yesterday denied that he instructed the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to build the terminal station of a planned high-speed rail extension line to Yilan County in Sicheng (四城), where his family lives, to boost real-estate prices there.
A consulting firm hired by the ministry had recommended four possible terminal stations adjacent to Yilan Station, Luodong Station, Sicheng Station or at a yet-to-be built station near the Yilan County Government building.
Yesterday, the Chinese-language United Daily News reported that one of the properties to be expropriated by the government for the terminal station in Sicheng
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