Lin Chuan

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Lin Chuan

Lin Chuan ( Chinese  林 全 , Pinyin Lín Quán ; born December 13, 1951 in Zuoying District ( Kaohsiung )) is a non-party Taiwanese politician and was Chairman of the Executive Yuan from May 20, 2016 to September 7, 2017, and thus Prime Minister of the Republic of China (Taiwan) .

Academic, professional and political career

Lin studied economics at Fu-Jen University and Chengchi National University . In 1984 he earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. After returning to Taiwan, he was a researcher at the Chunghwa Institution for Economic Research in Taipei (1984-1989), as a professor at the Department of Public Finance at Chengchi University (1989-1995) and at the Department of Economics at the State University Taiwan and Taipei City Finance Administration (1995–1998).

In 2000, under the newly elected President Chen Shui-bian, he was appointed to the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance as a budget, accounting and statistics officer. From 2002 to 2006 he headed this ministry as Minister of Finance. In 2006, he was removed from office by the president and served on the board of directors of Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation . From 2014 to 2016, Lin served as chairman of the Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit . After the presidential election in 2016 and the subsequent change of government, Lin was appointed Prime Minister by the new President Tsai Ing-wen and took office on May 20, 2016. He submitted his resignation on September 4, 2017 after the government came under pressure for unpopular reforms. Lin justified his resignation by saying that he had largely achieved his self-imposed political goals, including the initiation of a tax reform, the beginning of the energy transition with a move away from nuclear energy and infrastructure programs. As a non-party, he is not the right person for the coming years, with the upcoming local and regional elections.

The previous mayor of Tainan , Lai Ching-te ( DPP ) was appointed Lin's successor . The handover took place from September 7th to 8th, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Department of Economics (NTU)
  2. ↑ Tsai names Lin Chuan as her premier , The Taipei Times, March 16, 2016
  3. ↑ Premier Lin resigns, Cabinet to follow , The Taipei Times, September 5, 2017
  4. ↑ Outgoing premier details reasons for stepping down , Focus Taiwan, September 5, 2017
  5. ↑ Meg Chang: Tsai appoints Tainan's Mayor Lai Ching-te as Prime Minister. Taiwan today, September 5, 2017, accessed September 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Popular Tainan mayor Lai Ching-te appointed Taiwan Premier as Tsai Ing-wen seeks to shore up support. Straits Times , September 5, 2017, accessed the same day
  7. ^ Lai Ching-te sworn in as new premier , Focus Taiwan, September 8, 2017
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Lin is the family name here, Chuan is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lin, Chuan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese politician, Prime Minister of Taiwan
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Zuoying , Kaohsiung , Republic of China (Taiwan)