A place for young people to build
Make starting a career or a business in Wanhua a realistic choice.
Chen Li-Shin · Taipei City Electoral District 5 (Zhongzheng and Wanhua) · Independent
Affordable rents and a strong neighborhood identity should make the old city fertile ground for new ventures. Instead, workspaces, mentors, and support programs are scattered, leaving young people without a clear route from an idea to a first customer.
Li-Shin has built a business from the ground up overseas. He knows that founders rarely need another slogan. They need a place they can afford, someone who will answer an honest question, and the first opportunity to prove their work.
Map and match startup spaces
Connect coworking venues and underused public properties with low-barrier programs that let young teams test an idea before taking on unaffordable risk.
Build brands with Wanhua
Support collaborations between established local shops and young creative teams, helping traditional craft and reputation become a new product, service, or successor business.
A local mentor network
Bring together business owners and returning entrepreneurs for regular, volunteer office hours so founders have someone practical to ask.
A standing forum for young residents
Hold quarterly conversations and carry the priorities raised there into council questions and budget proposals, not just campaign messaging.
Publish the resource map
Complete a constituency-wide map of affordable spaces, programs, mentors, and other useful startup resources.
Create visible first cases
Help the first group of established shops and young teams launch collaborations or move into matched spaces, then share what was learned.
Bring a generation back
Make Zhongzheng and Wanhua one of Taipei’s most welcoming older districts for young founders, employees, and successors.