When Chiang Kai-shek's son, President Chiang Ching-kuo, died in 1988 he was also entombed in a similar fashion in nearby Touliao Mausoleum, Daxi. This is why Daxi has been known as the “township of the Presidents”. In 2004, Chiang Fang-liang, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo, asked that both father and son be buried at Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery in Hsichih, Taipei County. The state funeral ceremony was planned for late 2006, but with repeated delays, no ceremony was held or materialized. There was public debate if another national funeral should be held again for the burial in Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery while fervent supporters of Taiwan independence were against granting honors to whom they view as a dictator. However, President Chen inclined to hold another national funeral (the first to invoke the state funeral law) but one lasting only one day. Chiang Fang-liang and Soong Mei-ling had agreed in 1997 that the former leaders be first buried but still be moved to mainland China in the event of reunification. Soong Mei-ling died in 2003 and was entombed at Ferncliff Cemetery in New York. Chiang Fang-liang died in 2004 and her cremated remains were placed next to her husband's tomb at Touliao.