Huang Shun-hsing (; 12 March 1923 – 5 March 2002) was a Chinese politician. Huang is one of very few politicians after 1949 that held office in both the Republic of China, and later in the People's Republic of China. Huang was raised in present-day

Changhua County Changhua County (Mandarin Pinyin: ''Zhānghuà Xiàn''; Wade-Giles: ''Chang¹-hua⁴ Hsien⁴''; Hokkien POJ: ''Chiang-hòa-koān'' or ''Chiong-hòa-koān'') is the smallest county on the main island of Taiwan by area, and the fourth smallest ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

, while it was still ruled by Japan. He attended an agricultural school in Japan, then worked in Shanghai for two years before returning to Taiwan, settling in Taitung. Huang served on the

Taitung County Council The Taitung County Council () is the elected county council of Taitung County, Republic of China. The council composes of 30 councilors lastly elected through the 2022 Republic of China local election on 26 November 2022. See also * Taitung Co ...

for three terms, and as Taitung County Magistrate for one term prior to contesting his first legislative election in 1972. Huang was re-elected to the

Legislative Yuan The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for 4-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel v ...

in 1975. He was active in the

tangwai movement The ''Tangwai'' movement, or simply ''Tangwai'' (), was a loosely knit political movement in Taiwan in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Although the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) had allowed contested elections for a small number of seats in the Legi ...

, and contributed to ''

Formosa Magazine ''Formosa Magazine'', also known as Mei-li-tao (), was a magazine created by Tangwai individuals in Taiwan during the summer of 1979. It opposed the Kuomintang's political monopoly in the Republic of China government. A police raid of the ''For ...

''. Huang favored unification with China. After he lost the Changhua County magistracy to George Huang in 1981, Huang Shun-hsing was imprisoned for a time because his daughter had left for China. Huang himself moved to Beijing in 1985. He was elected to the 7th National People's Congress in 1988, as an independent. Huang became known for voting against the confirmation of Zhou Gucheng, who won reelection as chair of the Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee. This was the first act of opposition at a meeting of the NPC since the body first met in 1954. Huang resigned from the NPC in 1992, over a disagreement regarding the Three Gorges Dam project, and died in 2002 of a heart attack.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huang, Shun-hsing 1923 births 2002 deaths Changhua County Members of the Legislative Yuan Nantou County Members of the Legislative Yuan Taichung Members of the Legislative Yuan People's Republic of China politicians from Beijing Taiwanese emigrants to China Magistrates of Taitung County Delegates to the 7th National People's Congress Taiwanese prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Taiwan Taiwanese defectors Burials at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery