The draft Hakka Development Act is divided into 7 chapters and 50 articles, chiefly aimed at the goals of ensuring the status of the Hakka, educational development, corpus planning and promotion to regulate the direction of Hakka development; ensuring people’s right to use Hakka through having defined spaces for the use of Hakka; maintaining the traditional language areas of Hakka communities; promoting the mainstreaming of Hakka locally and promoting Hakka as a common language of communication and educational instruction, to complete the capacity for Hakka services and advance the sustainable development of Hakka and culture.
In order to give sufficient and appropriate opportunities for academics and specialists concerned with Hakka development, the general public, civic groups and relevant stakeholders to express their views and participate in the legislation process of Hakka development policy, the Hakka Affairs Council has brought together the abundant academic resources of the country’s Hakka research institutions and introduced the spirit of public participation to organize public forums in New Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli, Taichung, Yunlin, Kaohsiung, Pingtung, Hualien and Taitung as a way to collate opinions related to Hakka development from all sectors to provide reference for adjustments. Each forum will also be broadcast directly through the Hakka Affairs Council’s Facebook page.