The dispute over buying a Chinese satellite to take pictures of Taiwan, the Council of Agriculture: it was found that the contract had been terminated afterwards, and the reporter checked that it should be predictable in advance.

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Premier Su Tseng-chang announced at the beginning of the year that the state would invest 25 billion yuan in the third phase of the "Space Science and Technology Development Program." yesterday's Apple Daily revealed that the Council of Agriculture spent NT $10 million on purchasing Chinese satellite images, and the media questioned why the Council of Agriculture did not give priority to the use of domestic space technology to obtain satellite image information. And the purchase of Chinese satellite map funds is tantamount to the handing over of land information to people, which has the concern of endangering national security and information security, and questioning all the negligence of the agricultural examination of the Council of Agriculture. Another person in the legal circle pointed out that the procurement process in this case was not handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of procurement, which may be in danger of breaking the law.

In response to questions from the media, the Council of Agriculture held an emergency press conference yesterday (6) to clarify that Chen Junji, vice chairman of the Council of Agriculture, explained that the commercial satellite images used by manufacturers were open to the market and were self-inorganic sensitivity. the images obtained from the agricultural test are only for internal researchers to grasp production and marketing data, and there is no concern about the outflow of capital and safety, and the Council of Agriculture does not restrict the company's access to satellite images in advance. It was later found that the satellite image resources used by the company came from China, and considering the community's misgivings about China's Zi'an products, it has terminated the contract with the manufacturer.

A reporter from "upstream and downstream" tracked down and found that the unit price of this case is only 55 yuan per square kilometer, which is far lower than the map funds of similar specifications in Europe and the United States. The agricultural examination institute should have been able to predict that manufacturers might use Chinese map funds before deciding the bid. Last year, the Agricultural testing Institute bought German map money from Xincai at a price of 53 yuan per square kilometer, but it only has five bands, so it can buy 12-band map money at a similar price, which is likely to come from China. The address of Xincai is exactly the same as that of Platinum Star, which purchased Chinese capital in this case.