Chiau Wen-yan

Chiau Wen-yan

Chiau Wen-Yan ( Chinese  邱文彥 , Pinyin Qiū Wényàn ; born July 17, 1953 ) is a Taiwanese politician and marine scientist. He served as the deputy director general of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency and is now a professor at the National Taiwan Ocean University. His focus is on marine policy, climate change, environmental protection, urban and state planning, underwater heritage, management of the world's oceans and the conservation of wetlands .

biography

Chiau is a member of the Hakka ethnic group from Neipu, Pingtung County . He graduated from Cheng Kung National University's Department of Urban Planning in 1976 with a BS in Urban Planning from Chung Hsin National University's Department of Law and Economics (now restructured as Taipei National University ) in 1980 . Chiau Wen-Yan received his first Environmental Protection Legislation Fellowship, sponsored by the government, for participation in continuing education studies in urban and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania , from which he graduated in 1991 with Masters and Ph.D. degrees was awarded. Chiau has taught at the Institute of Marine Environment and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen National University , followed by the Institute of Marine Affairs and Resource Management at National Taiwan Ocean University.

Chiau specializes in environmental planning and management, particularly in the areas of urban and regional planning, climate change, coastal zone management, wetland conservation, ecotourism, underwater heritage, marine policy and environmental law.

Chiau drafted the Taiwan Environmental Education Act, which came into effect in 2010. In 1995 and 2001 he received the Canadian Studies Award from the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei for his research in coastal zone management and marine protected areas in Canada. Chiau was a delegate of the Chinese Taipei delegation at the APEC Working Group Meeting for the Conservation of Marine and Fisheries Resources, which subsequently became the APEC Marine Resource Conservation Working Group and the Fisheries Working Group ("Working Group for Fisheries") was created. He also received the post of editor of the international journal APEC Bulletin on Ocean and Coastal Management ("APEC Bulletin on Ocean and Coastal Management ").

Free China boat homecoming ceremony

As an oceanographer, Chiau made plans for shipping, such as For example the “Vision of Maritime Countries” in 1996, the “Maritime Affairs Organization Prospectus” in 2000, the “Ocean White Paper” in 2001, the “National Vision for the Golden Decade” on the protection of oceans and wetlands in 2006, the Ocean Education White Paper in 2007, and the Blue Revolution and Ocean Nation guideline in 2008. Chiau and Huang Huang-Hsiung hosted the Ocean and Taiwan Seminar three times in a row. Chiau also participated in the rescue of the Free China Junk. Chiau was appointed deputy director of the Environmental Protection Administration by the Executive Yuan in August 2008 . In 2011, he was nominated for the 2012 Legislative Yuan election in fifth place on the Kuomintang party list . Chiau was elected President of the “ ROC Parliamentary Society for Friendship with Germany ”, which was established in the Legislative Yuan on June 10, 2015 .

Chiau advocates environmental sustainability and the preservation of the landscape and cultural heritage, and also called for electronic nautical maps to be created to ensure navigation safety. At the same time, he advised the countries concerned to be cautious about the conflicts in the East and South China Seas . He recommends maintaining the concept of “peace” and “Navy Protected Zones” so that Taiwan, China and Japan can put their disputes aside for a short period of time and negotiate with the “International Marine Peace Park” jointly established in the East and South China Sea is being built.

Legislative Council Internal Affairs Committee

When Chiau was a student at National Cheng Kung University, he was the president of the arts club. Chiau won first prizes in the quorum group and social group in the Seven Counties of Southern Taiwan Ink Painting and Drawing Contest with work collected at the Tainan Social Education Center . Chiau also won first prize ( Golden Ring Award ) in the traditional Chinese painting category for the National Military Reserve's Qingxi Literature and Art Award. Some of his ballpoint pen drawings can be found in his book "Travel Anecdotes of Chiau Wen Yan" (邱文彥 行旅 隨筆).

Offices

• 8th legislative term as national legislator-at-large
• Deputy Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency
• Professor and Director, Department of Naval Affairs and Resource Management, National Taiwan Ocean University
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Marine Environment and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University
• Advisory Councilor, Advisory Commission on National Land Conservation and Development into the Presidential Hall
• Councilor, Deputy General Manager, National Sustainable Development Council, Executive Yuan
• Deputy Chairman
• Member, National Council for the Advancement of Naval Affairs
• Member, ecological engineering committee
• Advisory Council Member, Advisory Commission on Species Protection, Council of Agriculture Ministers
• Member, regional planning committee, municipal planning committee, urban renewal advisory committee, interior minister
• Member, City Planning Committee for Kaohsiung City, County and Pingtung County Governments.
• President, Wetlands Taiwan
• President of the Taiwan Pollution Control Association
• CEO, Foundation of Ocean Taiwan

Important bills

Main laws drafted and approved

• Environmental Education Act (2010)
• Wetlands Conservation Act (2013)
• Organization Law of the Council of Indigenous Peoples (2014)
• Coastal Zones Administrative Act (2015)
• Adaptation of the Forest Act - Chapter on Protection of Trees (2015)
• Museum Act (2015)
• GHG Reduction and Administrative Act (2015)
• the four organizational laws of the Council for Marine Affairs (Coast Guard Administration, Administration for Marine Protection and the National Academy for Marine Research) (2015)
• Underwater Cultural Heritage Conservation Act (2015)
• National Land Use Bill (2015)

congressional diplomacy

Chiau also participated in the decision-making process for the Special Statute for the Comprehensive Management of River Basins , which was officially adopted on January 14, 2014.

Other proposed laws

Adaptation to the Urban Redevelopment Act, the Draft Landscape Act, the Draft Landscape Architect, the Marine Area Administrative Draft, the Adaptation of the Cultural Heritage Conservation Act, the Special Act on River Restoration and Pollution Control and the Act on Land and Water Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

In addition, Chiau is also pushing the creation of electronic navigation maps to keep navigation safe. In the meantime, he demands control of related countries aimed at the conflicts that arise in the East and South China Seas. He also calls on all states to end disputes and actively negotiate, based on the concept of “peace” and “marine protected areas”, in order to construct the “International Coastal Peace Park” in the East and South China Seas.

Web links

• Professor Chiau Wen-Yan. - Entry with the Institute of Naval Affairs and Resource Management of the National Taiwan Ocean University. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
• Wen-Yan CHIAU Ph.D. - Entry with the Institute of Naval Affairs and Resource Management of the National Taiwan Ocean University. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
• Legislator Chiau Wen-Yan, Legislative Yuan. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
• Travel anecdotes by Chiau Wen-Yan. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
• Foundation of a Taiwanese-German group of friends in the Taiwanese parliament (Legislative Yuan) - Germany and Taiwan. German Institute Taipei, accessed December 14, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wen-Yan Chiau. (PDF) (No longer available online.) National Sun Yat-sen University College of Marine Sciences, archived from the original on December 26, 2015 ; accessed on December 26, 2015 (English, short biography). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Founding of a Taiwanese-German group of friends in the Taiwanese parliament (Legislativyuan). (No longer available online.) German Institute Taipei, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ 邱文彥 行旅 隨筆. Retrieved December 27, 2015 (Chinese). 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chiau is the family name here, Wen-Yan is the first name.