Xinzhuang Elementary School is under the second phase of reconstruction
New Taipei City Government held the groundbreaking ceremony for Xinzhuang Elementary School on January 16. Mayor Eric Chu arrived at the ceremony along with legislator Li Hong-jun, city council Haung Lin Ling-ling, Liu Mei-fang, Lai Qiu-mei and He Shu-feng.
Chu indicated that the city council had supported the funding on Xinzhuang elementary school, which had been nurturing a lot of remarkable students for more than one hundred years.
Upon walking into Xinzhuang elementary school, the history of Xinzhuang emerges. For New Taipei City, Xinzhuang is an area not only full of historical meaning, but also with developing potential.
The second phase of the reconstruction will demolish the western building, and build a total area of 7,965.67 square meters building, including five floors and a one-floor basement. This building will provide the teachers and students with several rooms, such as the administrative office, specialist classroom, brand new conference room, the library and a kindergarten. The total budget of the second phase reconstruction is NT$164,740,000, and the reconstruction will be finished in June 2013.
Education Department had formulated a 5-year-NT$5.2billion-budget plan on the reconstruction for old schools in New Taipei City from 2013 to 2017 in order to fortify the buildings against earthquakes. Director of Education Department Lin Teng-jiao hoped that the reconstruction could give the students a safer and better learning environment.
Xinzhuang Elementary School was established during Japanese Colonial Era, and after the era more buildings were built in 1955, 1965 and 1982.
In recent years, Education Department had been in an effort to positively reconstruct the old schoolyard.
