Chang Ching-sen

Chang Ching-sen
張景森
Director of the Kinmen-Matsu Joint Services Center
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2017
Preceded by	Position established (as Governor of Fujian Province to 1 January 2019)
Minister without Portfolio
Incumbent
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 (1959-10-08) (age 64) Yunlin County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China
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]

Early life

Chang obtained his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in civil engineering from National Taiwan University in 1982 and 1991, respectively.

Political career

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]

Cross-strait relations

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]

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