Yang Cheng-wu (Chinese: 楊鎮浯; pinyin: Yáng Zhènwú; born 26 June 1972) is a Taiwanese politician. He is the incumbent chairman of the Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation. He had served as Magistrate of Kinmen County since 25 December 2018 until 25 December 2022, having won the office in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections.[1] Prior to contesting the magistracy, Yang represented Kinmen County in the Legislative Yuan.

Yang Cheng-wu
楊鎮浯
Chairman of Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation
Assumed office
30 June 2023
General ManagerWu Fang-ming
Preceded byHuang Hsiang-chun
Magistrate of Kinmen County
In office
25 December 2018 – 25 December 2022
Preceded byChen Fu-hai
Succeeded byChen Fu-hai
Member of Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 2016 – 25 December 2018
Preceded byYang Ying-hsiung
Succeeded byChen Yu-chen
ConstituencyKinmen County
Personal details
Born (1972-06-26) 26 June 1972 (age 52)
Kinmen, Republic of China
NationalityRepublic of China
Political partyKuomintang
Alma materChinese Culture University (BA)
University of Westminster (MBA)

Education

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Yang obtained his bachelor's degree in economics from Chinese Culture University and master's degree in business administration from University of Westminster in the United Kingdom.[2]

Political career

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Legislative Yuan

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Yang became the Ninth Legislative Yuan member after winning the 2016 general election representing Kinmen County Constituency.[1]

In August 2017, Yang called on for closer cooperation between the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Ministry of Transportation and Communications in creating the helipad and providing the agreed medical evacuation helicopter for Kinmen residents.[3]

In October 2017, Yang participated in the local Kinmen referendum in questioning the establishment of casino in the county. He openly opposed such establishment and supported the negative outcome of the referendum.[4]

On 5 August 2018, Yang attended the ceremony marking the first day of Kinmen importing water from mainland China.[5]

2018 Kinmen County magistrate election

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2018 Kuomintang Kinmen County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Yang Cheng-wu Called In Walkover

On 24 November 2018, Yang won the Kinmen County magistrate election defeating the incumbent independent Chen Fu-hai.

2018 Kinmen County mayoral results[6]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Yang Cheng-wu   Kuomintang 23,520 47.48%  
2 Hung Chih-heng (洪志恒) Kinmen Gaoliang Party 832 1.69%
3 Wang Cheng-hua (汪承樺) UNESCO budget e-league 403 0.82%
4 Chen Fu-hai   Independent 22,719 46.15%
5 Hsieh Yi-zhen (謝宜璋)   Independent 1,389 2.82%
6 Hong Ho-cheng (洪和成)   Independent 366 0.74%
Total voters 117,913
Valid votes 49,229
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  41.75%

Magistracy

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To develop Kinmen, Yang held his first official visit to mainland China just about two months after his inauguration as the county magistrate. While visiting Quanzhou and Xiamen in Fujian, he led a delegation from various department of the county government to promote the tourism and products of Kinmen to the mainland people.[7]

On 12 August 2019, Yang, along with Penghu County magistrate Lai Feng-wei and Lienchiang County magistrate Liu Cheng-ying, visited Beijing and met with Taiwan Affairs Office director Liu Jieyi requesting the mainland Chinese government to lift up individual travel ban of mainland Chinese tourists to the three counties due to the constraint cross-strait relations. The mainland government eventually agreed to lift up the ban on 20 September 2019.[8]

In late April 2020, Magistrate Yang visited Wuqiu for the first time as magistrate and stayed overnight.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b Yen, William (24 November 2018). "Kuomintang reclaims Kinmen County seat". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Yang, Cheng-Wu". Legislative Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan). Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  3. ^ Wu, Cheng-ting; Chung, Jake. "Kinmen to get medivac helicopter". Taipei Times. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  4. ^ Wu, Cheng-ting; Liu, Li-jen (29 October 2018). "Kinmen nixes casino development". Taipei Times. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  5. ^ Lu, Yi-hsuan (6 August 2018). "Kinmen starts importing Chinese water". Taipei Times. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  6. ^ "2018 Local Elections". www.cec.gov.tw.
  7. ^ Huang, Huei-min; Wang, Flor (31 January 2019). "Kinmen magistrate touts efforts to improve livelihoods". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  8. ^ "China to lift individual travel ban for Taiwan's offshore counties". Taiwan News. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  9. ^ Tsai Chia-Chen 蔡家蓁 (28 April 2020). 楊鎮浯上任首度訪視烏坵 Longstay感受偏鄉的不便. 聯合新聞網 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 6 May 2020.蔡家蓁Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text&rft_id=https://udn.com/news/story/7327/4524819&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Yang Cheng-wu" class="Z3988">
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