New Cabinet Formally Announced

New Cabinet Formally Announced

Sources: All Taipei newspapers

January 31, 2012

Following an extraordinary meeting of the Executive Yuan (Cabinet) this morning, Premier Wu Den-yih and his cabinet resigned en masse. The Presidential Office this afternoon announced in a press release the appointment of Sean Chen (陳沖) as new Premier. Chen immediately held a press conference to announce his cabinet lineup, who were expected to be sworn in on February 6.

Chung-Ming Kuan (管中閔), an academician in the Academia Sinica who once served as a member of the Presidential financial and economic advisory group, has been appointed as a minister of state without portfolio. His appointment is another shot of new blood of financial and economic expertise into the new cabinet.

In addition, Dr. Wei-Ling Chiang (蔣偉寧), President of National Central University, will take over the Education Ministry. Chen Bao-ji (陳保基), a professor and former Dean of the College of Bioresources and Agriculture at National Taiwan University, has been appointed chairman of the Council of Agriculture.

Tsai Huang-liang, DPP caucus whip, needled the new cabinet as “old wine in an old bottle” because he saw no new faces in the lineup, adding that such a cabinet reshuffle was a great failure and exposed President Ma Ying-jeou’s embarrassment at being unable to recruit new talents for the new cabinet.

However, the business sector gave the new cabinet appointments a positive assessment. Acer Inc. (宏碁) founder Stan Shih praised that new cabinet members were excellent choices, and called on the public to give them encouragement and room to exercise their talents. Joseph Tsai, chairman of the First Financial Holdings Co., also stated that the new cabinet members were extremely familiar with the financial services industry and markets, which would benefit from the new Cabinet’s “pragmatic” financial policies in the future.

The new Cabinet is listed as follows:

Positions	Names
Premier	Sean Chen (陳沖)
Vice Premier	Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺)
Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan	Lin Yi-shih (林益世)
Minister of State Without Portfolio	Yang Chiu-hsing (楊秋興)
	Chung-Ming Kuan (管中閔)
	Chang San-cheng (張善政)
	Chang Chin-fu (張進福)
	James Cherng-tay Hsueh (薛承泰)
	Lin Junq-tzer (林政則)
	Chen Cheng-tsuan (陳鎮川)
	Huang Kuang-nan (黃光男)
	Wu Ching-ji (吳清基)

Interior Minister	Lee Hong-yuan (李鴻源)
Defense Minister	Kao Hua-chu (高華柱)
Foreign Minister	Chin-tien Yang (楊進添)
Finance Minister	Christina Y. Liu (劉憶如)
Education Minister	Chiang Wei-Ling (蔣偉寧)

Justice Minister

Tseng Yung-fu (曾勇夫)

Transportation and Communications Minister	Mao Chi-kuo (毛治國)
Economics Minister	Shih Yen-shiang (施顏祥)

Governor of the Central Bank	PERNG Fai-nan (彭淮南)
Director-General of the Government Information Office	Philip Y.M. Yang (楊永明)
Health Minister	Chiu Wen-ta (邱文達)
Minister of Environmental Protection Administration	Stephen Shu-hung Shen (沈世宏)

Chairperson of the Mainland Affairs Council	Lai Shin-yuan (賴幸媛)
Chairman of the Council for Economic Planning and Development	Yiin Chii-ming (尹啟銘)

Minister of Veterans Affairs Commission

Tseng Jing-ling (曾金陵)

Chairperson of National Youth Commission

Chen Yi-chen (陳以真)

Minister of Atomic Energy Council	Tsai Chuen-horng (蔡春鴻)
Chairman of Research, Development and Evaluation Commission	Chu Chin-peng (朱景鵬)

Chairman of the Council of Agriculture

Chen Bao-ji (陳保基)

Chairperson of the Council for Cultural Affairs	Lung Ying-tai (龍應台)
Chairperson of Sports Affairs Council	Tai Hsia-ling (戴遐齡)
Chairperson of the Council of Labor Affairs	Wang Ju-hsuan (王如玄)
Chairman of Council for Hakka Affairs	Huang Yu-cheng (黃玉振)
Chairperson of the Central Election Commission	Chang Po-ya (張博雅)
Chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission	Chen Yuh-chang (陳裕璋)
Chairman of National Science Council	Cyrus C.Y. Chu (朱敬一)

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