Mao Chi-kuo

Mao Chi-kuo

Mao Chi-kuo ( Chinese  毛治國 , Pinyin Máo Zhìguó ; born October 4, 1948 in Fenghua , Republic of China ) is a Taiwanese politician of the Kuomintang . From December 2014 to January 2016, he was Chairman of the Executive Yuan and thus Prime Minister of the Republic of China in Taiwan .

Life and academic career

Mao was born in Fenghua ( Zhejiang ) in 1948 . Shortly after his birth, his family fled to the island of Taiwan due to the Chinese Civil War . Mao studied civil engineering at Cheng Kung National University in Tainan , received a master's degree in economics from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand (1975) and a PhD in 1982 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA . After his return to Taiwan, he taught from 1982 to 1987 as a university professor at Chiao Tung National University . During the break in his political career, he was chairman of the board of directors of Chunghwa Telecom from 2000 to 2003 and again as a professor at Chiao Tung University between 2003 and 2008.

Political career

In 1987 Mao was appointed secretary in the Taiwanese Ministry of Transportation, which marked the beginning of his political career. He was a member of the ministry until 2000 and during this period he held various offices, including managing the tourism, traffic safety and civil aviation offices. In 1994 he was promoted to Deputy Minister of Transport and held this post until the change of government after the elections in 2000 .

After the Kuomintang won the 2008 elections , Mao was appointed Minister of Transport in the first cabinet of the new government and held this post until 2013. Under Prime Minister Jiang Yi-huah , Mao became Deputy Prime Minister and after Jiang's resignation following the defeat of the Kuomintang in the Taiwanese local elections (November 2014), President Ma Ying-jeou appointed Mao as the new Prime Minister on December 3, 2014 , and with the formation of a new cabinet instructed. Following the defeat of the ruling party in the presidential and parliamentary elections on January 16, 2016 , Mao announced his immediate resignation from office.

Web links

• Brief portrait of Mao on the Executive Yuan's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Focus Taiwan , December 3, 2014
2. ^ President Ma considering choice of new premier , Taiwan Focus News Channel, Jan. 23, 2016

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Mao is the family name here, Chi-kuo is the first name.