With a view to promoting policies that better meet public expectations while enabling seamless administrative continuity, most Cabinet officials will remain at their posts, the Executive Yuan announced today.
Cabinet appointees had all resigned on Monday, December 1 to take responsibility for ruling party defeats in the November 29 local elections.
Minister of Science and Technology Chang San-cheng will become the new vice premier. The Executive Yuan said that Chang is an information technology (IT) expert from the private sector. He has a practical background in engineering, science and technology, IT and management and is a seasoned communicator and coordinator. Together with new Premier Mao Chi-kuo, Chang will plan and execute government affairs with a pragmatic and forward-looking perspective, officials said.
In order to strengthen policy coordination and promotion in environmental protection and sustainable development, Political Deputy Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Yeh Shin-cheng, an environmental expert, has been named a minister without portfolio.
The new minister of the Coast Guard Administration, Wang Chung-yi, was promoted from deputy minister.
According to the Executive Yuan, the new Cabinet expects to promote its administrative policies with "the simplicity and practicality of an engineer and the precision and efficiency of a manager," as well as "a humble, respectful and communicative attitude." Increasing the welfare of all Taiwanese people will be the Cabinet's top priority, and it aims to lead Taiwanese society steadily forward.
In addition to Premier Mao and Vice Premier Chang, the Cabinet appointees include:
Ministers without Portfolio:
- Lin Junq-tzer (concurrently Governor, Taiwan Province)
- Kuan Chung-ming (concurrently Minister, National Development Council)
- Feng Yen
- Tsai Yu-ling (concurrently Minister, Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission)
- Duh Tyzz-jiun (newly appointed and concurrently Governor, Fujiang Province)
- Hsu Chun-yat (concurrently Minister, Public Construction Commission)
- Yeh Shin-cheng (newly appointed)
Secretary-General: Lee Shih-chuan
Deputy Secretary-General: Hsiao Chia-chi
Spokesperson: Sun Lih-chyun
Minister of the Interior: Chen Wei-zen
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Lin Yung-lo
Minister of National Defense: Yen Ming
Minister of Finance: Chang Sheng-ford
Minister of Education: Wu Se-hwa
Minister of Justice: Luo Ying-shay
Minister of Economic Affairs: Deng Chen-chung (newly appointed)
Minister of Transportation and Communications: Yeh Kuang-shih
Minister of Health and Welfare: Chiang Been-huang
Minister of Labor: Chen Hsiung-wen
Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council: Chen Shyh-kwei
Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council: Wang Yu-chi
Minister of the Financial Supervisory Commission: Tseng Ming-chung
Minister of the Veterans Affairs Commission: Tung Hsiang-lung
Minister of the Atomic Energy Council: Tsai Chuen-horng
Minister of the Council of Agriculture: Chen Bao-ji
Minister of the Council of Indigenous Peoples: Lin Chiang-yi
Minister of the Hakka Affairs Council: Liu Ching-chung
Minister of the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics: Shih Su-mei
Minister of the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration: Huang Fu-yuan
Minister of the EPA: Wei Kuo-yen
Minister of the Coast Guard Administration: Wang Chung-yi
Director of the National Palace Museum: Fung Ming-chu
The vacant ministerial posts of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Culture will be temporarily assumed by the respective political deputy ministers of these agencies, Lin Yi-bing and Hung Meng-chi.