Lee Wo-shih (; born 1 April 1960) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of

Kinmen County Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It lies roughly east of the city of Xiamen in Fujian, from which it is separate ...

from 20 December 2009 until 25 December 2014.

Political career

On 12 January 2008, he joined the

2008 Republic of China legislative election The 2008 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 12 January 2008 for members of the Legislative Yuan. It was the first Legislative Yuan election after the constitutional amendments of 2005, which extended term length from three to four years ...

as an independent candidate from Kinmen constituency. However, he lost the election.

Kinmen County Magistrate

2009 Kinmen County Magistrate election

Lee was elected as the Magistrate of Kinmen County after winning the 2009 Republic of China local election under the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

on 5 December 2009 and took office on 20 December 2009.

Cross-strait marriages

On 10 October 2010, Li presided over a group of cross-strait marriages featuring several couples between Taiwanese and Chinese mainland people. The marriage was done to celebrate the national day of the Republic of China. The wedding ceremony featured traditional rites, such as parade floats and the couple sitting in palanquins and on horses.

Duty-free island Kinmen

In mid June 2013 speaking at an economic forum organized by Taiwan Competitiveness Forum and attended by people from

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and

Mainland China "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...

, Li proposed Kinmen to be developed as duty-free island to boost tourism and the local economy. Kinmen can attract some of the 41.24 million tourists visiting the nearby

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city last year to the island. Li had also asked the central ROC government to grant Chinese mainland tourists multiple-entry visas for Kinmen, and also asked

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to ease the current Kinmen one-day tour restrictions to two or three days.

Deminers memorial park opening ceremony

Speaking during the opening ceremony of a memorial park to commemorate the mine-laying activities in end of March 2014, Li said that Kinmen is no longer a place with full of buried mines, but it is a tourist spot featuring beautiful coastlines and historical relics from wartime.

Water supply from Mainland China

Speaking during the official visit of

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

Communist Party Chief

You Quan You Quan (; born January 1954) is a Chinese politician who is the former director of the United Front Work Department and a former secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party. He previously served as Communist Party Secretary of F ...

to Kinmen in mid July 2014, Li asked You for a drop in price of the water supply from Mainland China to Kinmen, in which it will connect Longhu Reservoir in

to Tienpu Reservoir in Kinmen. The current water price set by Mainland China is CNY 2 per 1,000 liters.

2014 Kinmen County Magistrate election

Lee lost to independent

Chen Fu-hai Chen Fu-hai (; born 3 June 1963) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of Kinmen County from 2014 to 2018, and again since 25 December 2022 as an independent politician. Education Chen obtained his bachelor's degree from the Departme ...

in the 2014 Kinmen County magistrate election held on 29 November 2014.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Wo-shih 1960 births Living people Magistrates of Kinmen County Ming Chuan University alumni