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Lin Cabinet
On 15 March 2016, president-elect of the Republic of China Tsai Ing-wen named Lin Chuan premier. He was confirmed by the Legislative Yuan soon after and took office on 20 May 2016. On 3 September 2017, Premier Lin Chuan tendered his resignation to President Tsai Ing-wen, which was reluctantly accepted. A recent poll showed Lin's approve rating to be a mere 28.7%, with 6 in 10 respondents dissatisfied with the performance of his cabinet. Members of the Executive Yuan Ministers * Lin Hsi-yao, Vice Premier * Yeh Jiunn-rong, Interior * David Lee (Taiwanese politician), David Lee, Foreign Affairs * Feng Shih-kuan, National Defense * Sheu Yu-jer, Finance * Pan Wen-chung, Education * Chiu Tai-san, Justice * Lee Chih-kung, Economic Affairs * Hochen Tan, Transportation and Communications * Lin Tzou-yien, Health and Welfare * Cheng Li-chun, Culture * Kuo Fang-yu, Labor * Yang Hung-duen, Science and Technology Ministers without portfolio In the Lin cabinet, the following held office as mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Chuan
Lin Chuan (; born 13 December 1951) is a Taiwanese economist, lawyer, and politician who served as the Premier of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2017. He was the first cabinet head under the Tsai Ing-wen government. Before his premiership, he had also served as the Minister of Budget, Accounting and Statistics and Minister of Finance during Chen Shui-bian's presidency. Early life and education Lin was born in Kaohsiung to a ''waishengren'' family on 13 December 1951. His ancestral home is in Jiangsu and his family had ties with the Kuomintang. He graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1974 and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from National Chengchi University in 1978. Lin then pursued graduate studies in the United States, earning his Master of Science (M.S.) in 1982 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1984. His doctoral dissertation, completed under economist Jan Brueckner, was titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Chih-kung
Chih-Kung Lee (C.K. Lee; ; born October 1959) is a Taiwanese mechanical engineer. He is a distinguished professor of the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, the Institute of Applied Mechanics (IAM) and the Dept. of Engineering Science & Ocean Engineering at National Taiwan University. He received his B.S. degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University and then obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, majoring in theoretical & applied mechanics, with a minor in physics. He is known as the inventor of modal sensors and actuators. In the past, he has been an advisor to the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economic Affairs and various other governmental agencies, as well as the director general of engineering & applied sciences at Taiwan's National Science Council (NSC). Currently, he is the chairman of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Institute for Information Industry (III). Personal background Lee was born in Tai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mongolian And Tibetan Affairs Commission
The Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC) was a ministry-level commission of the Executive Yuan in the Republic of China. It was disbanded on 15 September 2017. History The first model was created during the Qing dynasty in 1636 as the Mongolian Bureau (; mnc, , z=Monggo jurgan), later reformed into the Lifan Yuan (理藩院) in 1639, and oversaw the relationship of the Qing court to its " Feudatory Regions" ( Mongolian, Muslims in Xinjiang and Tibetan territories). In 1906, during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor, it was renamed to Ministry of Minority Affairs (理藩部). Following the Xinhai Revolution and the collapse of the Qing dynasty, the section was replaced by Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Agency under the Ministry of the Interior in April 1912. In July 1912, the agency was again renamed as Bureau of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs (蒙藏院) and placed under the State Affairs Yuan. In 1914, it was reorganized and being placed directly under the supe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan Province
Taiwan Province ( zh, t=臺灣省 , p=Táiwān Shěng , poj=Tâi-oân-séng; PFS: ''Thòi-vàn-sén'' or ''Thòi-vân-sén'') is a ''de jure'' administrative division of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Provinces remain a titular division as a part of the Constitution of the Republic of China, but are no longer considered to have any administrative function practically. Taiwan Province covers approximately 69% of the island of Taiwan, and comprises around 31% of the total population. The province initially covered the entire island of Taiwan (Formosa), Penghu (the Pescadores), Orchid Island, Green Island, Xiaoliuqiu Island, and their surrounding islands. Between 1967 and 2014, six special municipalities (Kaohsiung, New Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Taipei and Taoyuan) were split off from the province, all in the most populous regions. Taiwan was initially made a prefecture of Fujian Province by the Qing dynasty of China after its conquest of the Kingdom of Tungning in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsu Jan-yau
Hsu Jan-yau (; born 8 August 1951) is a Taiwanese politician and current chairman of the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Education Hsu obtained his bachelor's degree in accounting and statistics from National Cheng Kung University in 1974 and master's degree in statistics from National Chengchi University in 1976. Political career Hsu was named a minister without portfolio in April 2016 and took office on 20 May. On 1 July, he was appointed Chairperson of the Provincial Government of Taiwan Province. Hsu served until November 2017, when he was named chairman of the Taiwan Stock Exchange The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE; ) is a financial institution, located in Taipei 101, in Taipei, Taiwan. The TWSE was established in 1961 and began operating as a stock exchange on 9 February 1962. It is regulated by the Financial S .... References Chairpersons of the Taiwan Provincial Government Living people 1951 births Politicians of the Republic of China on Taiwan from Kaohs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Development Council (Taiwan)
The National Development Council (NDC; ) is the policy-planning agency of the Executive Yuan of Taiwan . History NDC was formed on 22 January 2014 after the merging of Council for Economic Planning and Development, Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, part of the Public Construction Commission and part of the Data Management Processing Center of the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics. From July 2018, the NDC took over the duties for its streamlined Taiwan Province after the Executive Yuan dissolved the Taiwan Provincial Government. Organizational structure * Department of Overall Planning * Department of Economic Development * Department of Social Development * Department of Industrial Development * Department of Human Resource Development * Department of National Spatial Planning and Development * Department of Supervision and Evaluation * Department of Information Management * Regulatory Reform Center * Secretariat * Personnel Office * Civil S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Tain-jy
Chen Tain-jy () is a Taiwanese economist. He was the Minister of National Development Council from 2016 to 2017. Education Chen graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, then completed doctoral studies in the United States, where he earned his Ph.D. in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 1983 under economics professor Eric Bond. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Foreign investment, duty-free zones, and national welfare". He then returned to Taiwan to teach at NTU. Political career He led the Council for Economic Planning and Development from 2008 to 2009, during the Ma Ying-jeou Ma Ying-jeou ( zh, t=馬英九; pinyin: ''Mǎ Yīngjiǔ''; ; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT ... administration, and returned to government work in 2016 to serve as minister of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujian Province, Republic Of China
Fuchien ( ), formerly romanized as Fukien, is a ''de jure'' administrative division of Taiwan (ROC), whose constitution retains provinces as a titular division with no practical administrative function. It includes three small archipelagos off the coast of Fujian Province of the People's Republic of China, namely the Matsu Islands, which make up Lienchiang County, and the Wuqiu Islands and Kinmen Islands, which make up Kinmen County. Its administrative center is the Kinmen-Matsu Joint Services Center in Jincheng, Kinmen, serving as its de facto capital. The province is also known as the Golden Horse (), after the literal reading of the Chinese character abbreviation for "Kinmen-Matsu". The islands are the only part of a larger province that remain ROC-controlled. The People's Republic of China gained control of the mainland portion in 1949 during the Chinese Civil War. The islands were under military administration during the Cold War; travel restrictions were no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chang Ching-sen
Chang Ching-sen (; born 8 October 1959) is a Taiwanese civil engineer and politician. He is known for his advocacy to resolve the North-South divide in Taiwan. Early life and education Chang graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Ph.D. in civil engineering in 1982 and 1991, respectively. Political career In the mid-2000s, Chang was the vice chairman of the Council for Economic Planning and Development. He served as an advisor to Ko Wen-je's 2014 Taipei mayoral campaign. He was named a policy advisor to Tsai Ing-wen's 2016 presidential bid. After Tsai won, her designated premier Lin Chuan named Chang to the cabinet as a minister without portfolio on 7 April 2016. Three weeks before he took office on 20 May, Chang made controversial comments on Facebook about an urban renewal project in Shilin District Shilin District (also spelled Shihlin District, zh, t=士林區, p=Shìlínqū, poj=Sū-lîm-khu) is a district of Taipei. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Tang
Tang Feng ( zh, t=唐鳳, p=Táng Fèng; born 18 April 1981), also known by her English name Audrey, is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024. She has been described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities". In August 2016, Tang was invited to join Taiwan's Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio, making her the first transgender person and the first non-binary gender official in the top executive cabinet. Tang has identified as "Postgenderism, post-gender" and accepts "whatever pronoun people want to describe me with online." Tang is a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language Community of interest, communities, and is the core member of g0v. Early life Tang was born in Taipei to father Tang Kuang-hua and mother Lee Ya-ching. When she was four, she was diagnosed with a heart condition that had a 50% survival rate. Lee Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Hung-duen
Yang Hung-duen (; born 3 September 1965) is a Taiwanese physicist. Yang was the president of National Sun Yat-sen University from 2008 to 2016, when he was selected to lead the National Science and Technology Council. Academic career Yang earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from National Taiwan Normal University, and a doctorate in the subject from Iowa State University. Upon graduation in 1987, he returned to Taiwan for a teaching position at National Sun Yat-sen University. He was a visiting professor at Wayne State University from 1999 to 2000. Political career Yang led the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the National Science Council from 2001 to 2004, when he left for the Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, ; zh, t=中央研究院) is the national academy of the Taiwan, Republic of China. It is headquartered in Nangang District, Taipei, Nangang, Taipei. Founded in Nanjing, the academy supports research activities in mathemat .... He rejoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuo Fang-yu
Kuo Fang-yu (; born 1 April 1952) is a Taiwanese politician. He served as the Minister of Labor since 20 May 2016 until 7 February 2017. Education Kuo obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in diplomacy from National Chengchi University National Chengchi University () is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. First established in Nanjing in 1927, the university was subsequently reestablished in 1954 in Taiwan as the first reestablished "National University". The u ... in 1975 and 1979, respectively. References 1952 births Living people National Chengchi University alumni Ministers of labor of Taiwan {{Taiwan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
