The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday it would expand the scope of its Institute on Policy Research and Development to train talented leaders and ensure the party’s future.
The KMT announced it would launch new courses at the end of the month with the aim of cultivating talent for the party.
KMT Secretary-General Wu Den-yi (吳敦義) said yesterday that the institute’s training in party affairs and civil service would ensure that the party’s future generations are not faced with a shortage of talented personnel.
“The KMT should adjust its role now that it has returned to power. As the ruling party, we need to think about how to give better training for promising members,” he said.
The institute will launch a youth forum later this month and offer special courses for the KMT’s younger legislators and city and county councilors. The institute will also provide short-term training to improve the performance of top-level civil servants and local government heads.
The courses at the institute will include training on election issues as the party prepares for the elections of city and county government heads next year, officials said.
Wu Den-yi said KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) would teach some of the courses.
The institute will also invite Cabinet members to offer classes, Wu Den-yi said.
The institute was founded by dictator Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) in 1949 to cultivate talented personnel for the KMT and was called the Revolution Research Institute until the party lost the 2000 presidential election to the Democratic Progressive Party.
Many of the party’s leading figures, including President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), Wu Poh-hsiung and former KMT chairman Lien Chan (連戰), have attended courses at the institute.
After the 2000 election, the institute was scaled down, but the party said the institute should be revived to meet the party’s needs since returning to power.
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