Chang Ching-sen | |
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張景森 | |
Director of the Kinmen-Matsu Joint Services Center | |
Assumed office 1 January 2017 | |
Preceded by | Position established (as Governor of Fujian Province to 1 January 2019) |
Minister without Portfolio | |
Assumed office 20 May 2016 | |
Premier | Lin Chuan William Lai Hope Su |
Governor of Fujian Province | |
In office 20 May 2016 – 1 January 2019 | |
Preceded by | Lin Chu-chia |
Succeeded by | Position abolished (as Director of the Kinmen-Matsu Joint Services Center from 1 January 2019) |
Personal details | |
Born | 8 October 1959 Yunlin County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China | (age 64)
Nationality | Republic of China |
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | National Taiwan University |
Chang Ching-sen (Chinese: 張景森; pinyin: Zhāng Jǐngsēn; born 8 October 1959) is a Taiwanese politician and devoted to the issues of resolving the North-South divide in Taiwan. [1][2]
Chang obtained his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in civil engineering from National Taiwan University in 1982 and 1991, respectively.
In the mid-2000s, Chang was the vice chairman of the Council for Economic Planning and Development.[3] He served as an advisor to Ko Wen-je's 2014 Taipei mayoral campaign.[4][5] He was named a policy advisor to Tsai Ing-wen's 2016 presidential bid.[6] After Tsai won, her designated premier Lin Chuan named Chang to the cabinet as a minister without portfolio on 7 April 2016.[7] Three weeks before he took office on 20 May, Chang made controversial comments on Facebook about an urban renewal project in Shilin District.[8] He apologized via Facebook two days after making the post,[9] but later chose to deactivate his account on the social media platform.[10]
In September 2016 Chang made an unofficial statement that Mainland Chinese tourists are Taiwan's most needed friends, and to the Taiwanese that there is a difference between the Mainland Chinese people and the Mainland Chinese government.[11]