This is the 122nd issue of "Bay Area Lookout".
Zhuo Rongtai, responsible person of the quasi-administrative organ of the Taiwan authorities, presided over the third press conference on personnel briefing this morning (16 July).
Zhuo Rongtai announced that the head of Taiwan's economic department will be taken over by Guo Zhihui, chairman of Topco Group, the head of Taiwan's digital development department will be Huang Yannan, a top expert in Taiwan's information and communications field, and the chairman of Taiwan's development department will be Liu Jingqing, who has both industrial practice and professional consulting experience. The chairman of the Taiwan Science Committee was taken over by Wu Chengwen, president of the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, who was the main player of the Taiwan Giants Young League Team and is now a first-line computer giant, and the chairman of the "Financial Supervisory Commission" was Peng Jinlong, a financial innovation expert on the island, took over, and Chen Jinde served as the chairman of the "Public Works Council."
Taiwan media reported that the outside world is concerned about the 6 candidates for the administrative team announced today, of which 5 are all from the island's industry and academia, and have been deeply engaged in their professional fields for decades, with no doubt about their academic qualifications, experience and professional background, and have never joined the administrative agency, and have no party membership and factional color. Among them, Guo Zhihui and Huang Yannan have attracted much attention because they took over the economic department and digital development department of Taiwan respectively.
Zhuo Rongtai introduced that Guo Zhihui is the chairman of Chongyue Group, has long been deeply involved in semiconductors, optoelectronics and other scientific and technological fields, and has rich experience in building an international supply chain for the industry.
According to Taiwan's "United News Network", Guo Zhihui is known as a "slash economist" in the industry, not only involved in the semiconductor technology industry, but also across the fields of biotechnology, optoelectronics, green energy, environmental protection, health, etc., and is well versed in enterprise management and industrial supply chain and value chain. In order to pursue quality and food safety, Guo Zhihui not only introduced food freezing equipment, but also stepped into the contract, began to breed sea bass and milkfish, created a "one-stop" supply chain from the origin to the table, and became a "fish seller" and restaurant owner.
Guo Zhihui
When Guo Zhihui first joined the company at the age of 24, in order to contact Japanese trade, he used his off-duty time to learn Japanese by himself, and he also met Guo Taiming by chance, and served as Guo Taiming's driver and translator, and went to Japan to negotiate together. After that, Guo Zhihui declined Guo Taiming's job offer and became a shareholder of the former owner to co-found Chongyue Trading.
Zhuo Rongtai introduced that Huang Yannan, the new head of the Digital Development Department, is the current chief executive officer of the Information Security Center of the "Academia Sinica", with expertise in information security, communications, and AI, and rich experience in industry, government and education, which is the immediate combat power needed by the Digital Development Department.
According to Taiwan media, Huang Yannan's professional ability is deeply trusted by the public and private sectors. He has worked as a researcher in many prestigious international institutions in the past, including AT&T Bell Labs. In recent years, the wave of AI technology has hit, and Huang Yannan, as an expert in information security and artificial intelligence, has emphasized that artificial intelligence should be integrated into various fields.
Huang Yan Man
Huang Yannan was announced as the new head of the digital development department, which means that Tang Feng, the leader of the "water army" who was once praised by the Tsai Ing-wen authorities, has stepped down and left with the title of "genius IT minister".
Tang Feng's resignation was expected by the outside world. This person has been controversial on the island recently, in addition to spending money indiscriminately, she also called TikTok a "product that endangers the security of information and communications". According to a survey by Taiwan's "United News Network", the vast majority of people on the island oppose the Taiwan authorities taking the opportunity to expand the control of TikTok. Guo Zhengliang, a former representative of the Democratic Progressive Party who has quit the Democratic Progressive Party, has previously determined that Tang Feng is a rare department head who is considered unfit by both blue and green, and will definitely step down.
According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network" reported on March 28, a shooting occurred at the gate of the digital development department in Taiwan that morning, and the police arrested a 54-year-old man surnamed Zhang who fired the shot on the spot. It is said that the man runs a homestay in Nantou, and because he is dissatisfied with the DPP's "anti-mainland" policy, mainland tourists no longer go to Taiwan, and he thinks that the digital development department will only spend money indiscriminately, so he took a standard shotgun and a modified pistol to Taipei on the 27th, first went to the motel to stay, and went to the digital development department early on the 28th to shoot to vent his anger. He also asked, "What has the digital development department done for Taiwan? It can be seen from the shooting case that the Taiwanese people are also quite dissatisfied with Tang Feng, which may also prompt Lai Qingde to make up his mind to replace Tang Feng.
Tang Feng, formerly known as Tang Zonghan, has always been a topic of conversation in Taiwan, and his father, Tang Guanghua, was the deputy editor-in-chief of Taiwan's "China Times", and his mother, Li Yaqing, was the deputy director of the newspaper's interview department. According to Taiwan media reports, Tang Feng's highest education is only junior high school, but he taught himself programming at the age of 8, and co-founded a computer company at the age of 16, appeared on the cover of a business magazine, and worked as a programmer at Apple. What's more topical is that Tang Feng is a transgender person. She was originally a boy, and she previously revealed that she knew that she was actually a girl since she was a child, so she changed from "he" to "she" at the age of 24, and changed "Tang Zonghan" to "Tang Feng". She said that she did not have sex reassignment surgery and that for her, gender should be more than male and female. Taiwan media reported that although everyone thinks that Tang Feng is a transgender person, she herself filled in "none" in the gender column of the personnel information form of the administrative agency.
Tang Feng
The reason why Tang Feng was able to enter Tsai Ing-wen's eyes is mainly because during the "Sunflower Student Movement" in Taiwan in 2014, Tang Feng participated in the hacker team to set up relevant websites to directly broadcast, record and archive all the remarks during the movement, which greatly incited the arrogance of "Taiwan independence" elements, and then helped Tsai Ing-wen to be elected. According to Hong Kong media reports, in the violent incidents caused by the turmoil over Hong Kong's legislative amendments, Tang Feng once commanded the "cyber army" to stir up trouble in Hong Kong. In 2016, Tang Feng was recruited by the Tsai Ing-wen government as a "political councilor" of Taiwan's executive branch, responsible for overseeing the development of the digital economy and open government. On August 5, 2022, Taiwan's administrative body announced the appointment of Tang Feng as the first head of the digital development department.
It is worth noting that during his tenure as a public official, Tang Feng repeatedly took the opportunity to advocate "Taiwan independence" on international occasions.
When the United States held the first "Summit for Democracy" in December 2021, Tang Feng was invited to deliver a video speech at the meeting. But because she used a slide slide in her speech that identified Chinese mainland and Taiwan in two colors, it surprised U.S. officials who immediately cut off the video. Reuters quoted a source familiar with the matter as saying at the time that the US side was doing so to prevent giving people the impression of violating the "one China" policy.
In March this year, the third "Summit for Democracy" was held in South Korea, and Tang Feng was also invited to participate. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said that China firmly opposes the ROK's invitation to the Taiwan authorities to participate and urges the ROK to abide by the one-China principle and stop providing a platform for "Taiwan independence" forces.
Now, this figure who is "neither a man nor a woman" and advocates the idea of "Taiwan independence" is finally going to step down, and this is a good thing.
Author丨Liu Liping, the chief writer of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News
Editor丨Zeng Zijin, editor-in-chief of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News