The Executive Yuan established the Reconstruction Council 7 days after Typhoon Morakot struck, and the council’s southern Taiwan office came to a close on September 12th, 2009, at the 8th Regiment's Barracks at Cishan. On the same day, dedicated colleagues from various commissions made a seamless transition into the new offices at the Executive Yuan's Southern Taiwan Joint Services Center in Kaohsiung City to continue operations. They became responsible for frontline post-disaster reconstruction efforts, under the supervision of President Ma Ying-jeou and Premier Wu Den-Yih of the Executive Yuan. The Reconstruction Council is composed only 60 colleagues, transferred in from various central governmental ministries to serve full-time in the office. Many colleagues are away from their family and friends in Northern and Central Taiwan. While the council's size may be much smaller than the 250-man Reconstruction Council called in the wake of the 921 Earthquake, the size of the Taiwan Typhoon Morakot disaster area covers nearly half of Taiwan, mostly in the remote mountain areas, far larger than the area affected by the 921 Earthquake which was centralized in Nantou County and Taichung County areas.

According to The Morakot Post-Disaster Reconstruction Special Act, the Reconstruction Council is in charge of decisions regarding reconstruction policy matters, coordination, review, promotion and supervision. Therefore, the Reconstruction Council must coordinate and consolidate resources from various central ministries, 11 city and county governments (7 main cities and counties), township districts, regional self-help associations, the Reconstruction Council, NGO groups, central and local public representatives, as well as individual disaster victims. The Reconstruction Council's office is always open to provide service at the frontline. Since its activation, the Reconstruction Council has given 6 briefings at the Presidential Office, 15 project reports at the Executive Yuan Cabinet Meeting, with the Executive Yuan's Premier presiding over 25 of the Reconstruction Council's committee meetings and the Chief Executive Officer presiding over 36 working group meetings. The President, Premier, Chief Executive Officer, and Deputy Chief Executive Officer have also made countless visits to the disaster areas and construction sites. Reconstruction Council colleagues have traveled to the farthest mountain areas such as the Lijia and Pnguu Villages of Alishan Township, Lidao Village of Taitung County, Meishan Village of Taoyuan District in Kaohsiung City, Dakanuwa Village of Namasia District in Kaohsiug City, and the Ali and Gaoshi Villages of Wutai Township in Pingtung County to serve disaster victims in all regions. They have called countless consolidation and coordination meetings, taking helicopters when the roads were impassable, and then taking the risk of dangerous, rugged mountain roads. They have encountered numerous protests, witnessed the beautiful landscape of southern Taiwan, been in awe of the awesome forces of nature, and made many Aboriginal friends. Every time a typhoon or storm arrives, these colleagues are always busy fortifying preparations and paying close attention to the proper operation of various reconstruction efforts and the safety of disaster victims in the disaster areas.

Despite hardships such as no weekly breaks, frequent overtime, living away from the family, making many field visits, and the pressure to face and resolve issues in time, the colleagues at the Reconstruction Council view these greatest challenges also as the greatest opportunities to learn and grow. Therefore, Premier Wu encouraged Reconstruction Council colleagues to complete reconstruction properly. Once they return to their original units, he will ask the various departments to give priority for promotions. As the colleagues at the Reconstruction Council have had to take on great responsibilities such as bearing policy requirement pressure from superiors, the pressure of providing urgent services to disaster victims in the disaster areas, and also to achieve high efficiency and quality requirements, these colleagues are obviously top class civil servants who are able to endure these grueling challenges with compassion and the dedication to serve.
 
On the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the disaster, various reconstruction efforts are now on track. The Council will strive to complete the tasks at hand on schedule and with excellent quality, while continuing in accordance with Premier Wu instructions, "tighten the screws while working towards the 3 year reconstruction target. We must hold ourselves to a high standard during Typhoon Morakot reconstruction efforts so that we complete these tasks successfully, in the shortest amount of time possible."

The primary focuses of the ongoing reconstruction efforts:

In terms of homeland reconstruction, the goal will be to complete all bases before Chinese New Year 2012, strengthen the monitoring of the construction progress on permanent housing bases schools rebuilding, and continuing to create Colorful Sustainable Communities. With regard to infrastructure construction projects, the focuses are to strengthen implementation of construction projects such as roads connecting to aboriginal villages, and fortifying flood prevention measures. However, as all feats of engineering have an upper limit to the degree of protection they can provide, there is still the risk of disaster when excessively serious typhoons and floods take place. Information provision on this concept should be strengthened amongst the general public, as well as the implementation of various early warning and disaster evacuation drills in order to minimize the disaster damage and risk. As for industrial reconstruction, industry reconstruction efforts will continue to accelerate in ways such as demonstration locations and more. Efforts will work with tourism promotion programs for disaster areas so that the economy of reconstruction areas is revived.
 

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同仁靠怪手過河(那瑪夏台21線便道搶通之日981129)