One of the candidates standing to be chairperson for Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) party, Hung Hisu-chu, has said that the key to the KMT's revival lies in finding its soul, central idea and core values.

A file photo shows Hung Hsiu-chu, one of the candidates standing to be chairperson for Taiwan's KMT party. [Photo: news.163.com]

She was speaking as the KMT started the process of finding a new chairperson.

Hung was responding to a questions from the public, one of which compared the party's revival to baking a cake, or using the children's plastic playbricks "Lego".

"It doesn't matter whether the KMT is cake or Lego today, or what kind of method we use; let's pick up the bricks and build it (KMT) up, just like playing with Lego, will you?"

Hung says the party needed to revive itself step-by-step, steadily, and with a plan.

By Monday, four candidates had so far registered for the candidacy, with Hung Hisu-chu and Acting chairperson Huang Ming-hui leading the field.

Eric Chu resigned as the party leader last month after he lost in the island's leadership election to Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party.

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