Kmt Was In Power During The Taiwan Local Self-government

Local autonomy is an important component in the current political system of Taiwan. The Kuomintang implemented local autonomy formally in Taiwan since 1950, nowadays, which has already developed into the foundation of bearing the weight of the political system of Taiwan.There were many reasons to explain why the Kuomintang implemented the local autonomy in Taiwan at the beginning. Study the local autonomy of Taiwan, can't neglect its historical origin, actually, the policy had deep origins with past history. The Kuomintang had explored local autonomy when rule China's Mainland, having accumulated enough experience and lesson which were certainly very meaningful for it to manage Taiwan. Meanwhile, Local autonomy was a Taiwanese important political legacy of Japan's colonial rule. In Japanese colonial period, the Taiwanese people, in order to improve one's own situation, having carried on the long-term struggle constantly, the idea influence of local autonomy was far-reaching. On later stage of colonial era of Japan, the local autonomy factor of a certain degree appeared in the political system of Taiwan. All these things above-mentioned were the historical premise that the Kuomintang implemented local autonomy in Taiwan. The Kuomintang implemented local autonomy rapidly in Taiwan, had something to do with the extremely urgent political crisis that it faced. Originally, when the Kuomintang had just retreated in defeat to Taiwan, it was facing the overall but deep governance crisis. Seeking survival in order to meet an emergency, the Kuomintang had to reform its governance way to a certain extent. In the eyes of macroscopic background, the comprehensive function of the political crisis inside the island, the tense face-off of both sides of Taiwan Strait, and Taiwanese policy of U.S.A, impelled the Kuomintang to implement local autonomy rapidly. So, says to a great extent, this policy was not mainly out of the ideal of realizing democratic politics but a kind of tactics of dealing with crisis. Certainly, it is a rational choice weighed through pros and cons that the Kuomintang implements local autonomy. The motive that the Kuomintang implemented local autonomy was mainly to alleviate the social contradiction, consolidating and expanding the social base of the Kuomintang's regime.The local autonomy system of Taiwan under the Kuomintang's leading, had several democratic attribute. The administrative leader and popular representative of the place were elected directly by the people, they enjoyed the autonomy of a certain degree when dealing with public affairs of the place. Certainly, the Kuomintang authorities exerted a lot of restrictions to the local autonomy group in such key links as electing, personnel, finance, etc, compressed the space of local autonomy, making it become local election briefly basically, so as to ensure it can control the place effectively. However, according to total trend, the autonomy degree of the place have being improved constantly, this is a fact beyond dispute. During in power in the Kuomintang, the evolution of local autonomy had different phased characteristics.