This week, Lai Qingde's administrative team has announced the third and fourth waves of personnel appointments, of which the third wave of personnel are mainly economic related departments. Lai Qingde is accustomed to talking about his background as a doctor, and this time is no exception, he said that if someone wants to have surgery, he should try to find a clinician, not a professor who teaches in a school, so it can also be seen that Lai Qingde is looking for someone in the industry this time, he wants to show his "pragmatic" side. After all, as the leader of the Taiwan region who came to power in the "double minority", what Lai Qingde needs most now is to earn his own "reputation".
The third wave of personnel appointments announced includes Guo Zhihui, head of the economic department, Huang Yannan, head of the digital development department, Liu Jingqing, head of the Development Committee, Wu Chengwen, head of the Science and Technology Committee, Peng Jinlong, head of the Financial Supervisory Commission, and Chen Jinde, head of the Public Works Commission. Among them, the resume of the "dark horse" Guo Zhihui has attracted a lot of media attention on the island.
Guo Zhihui is not only a successful person in the semiconductor industry on the island, but also spans the fields of biotechnology, green energy, environmental protection, and health. At first, there were rumors in Taiwanese media that he cooperated with Guo Taiming in his early years and worked as Guo Taiming's driver and secretary. Later, Guo Taiming issued an article saying that it was a mutual achievement with him, and he was happy to see him as the head of the economic department. Although it is impossible to predict whether Guo Zhihui will be able to lead the island's economic departments to solve the current economic predicament in the future, in terms of social perception, it is definitely much better than the current person in charge, Wang Meihua. After all, the former is really successful in his career, while the latter is just a political reward.
Guo Zhihui has an industrial layout in the mainland, and was also told by the American media Bloomberg that he has cooperation with Huawei. By the standards of the DPP, it is a standard "red" figure. In addition, Wang Hongwei, a member of the Chinese Kuomintang, broke the news of his "black history", saying that Guo Zhihui had violated the relevant regulations on securities trading and was sentenced to 1 year and 10 months in prison by the High Court of the Taiwan region, and also violated the relevant regulations on commercial accounting, part of which Yike was fined (the system of paying fines instead of the original sentence), suspended for 5 years, and fined NT$6 million. One of Guo's defense lawyers at that time was Tsai Ing-wen's "love general" and Gu Lixiong, who had long been on the "list of 'Taiwan independence' diehards", that is, Wang Meihua's husband whom he replaced.
Guo Zhihui
Huang Yannan is an expert in information security, and is also involved in AI, intelligent Internet of Things and other fields, and has worked as a researcher at Bell Labs in the United States. But it is not so much to affirm Huang Yannan's achievements in the industry, but to say how much Lai Qingde, who is about to take power, hates Tang Feng, the current head of the digital development department. Tang Feng also came to power in the name of the so-called "digital prodigy", but in the past few years, he has done almost nothing except for spending money and making a snack review system. Lai Qingde hated Tang Feng because he couldn't help them grasp the direction of the network during the election, so after winning the election, he has been criticizing Tang Feng's inaction, such as criticizing Tang Feng for leading a team to Penghu to affirm his 5G political achievements, but when the media brought 5G broadcast equipment to the scene, they found that there was no 5G network at all, only 4G.
Liu Jingqing has served as the person in charge of a corporate management consulting company, and has also been committed to the innovation and transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in the past, so he also has rich experience in industrial development consulting.
Wu Chengwen is an electrical engineering expert from Tainan, and he is one of the promoters of the so-called "innovation and entrepreneurship rainforest ecosystem" that Lai Qingde has one of his election views.
Peng Jinlong is an expert in finance and insurance, inclusive finance, corporate management and risk management. In the early days, Peng Jinlong participated in and assisted the authorities at that time in formulating relevant regulations on financial control. However, the island's financial management policies have always been relatively conservative and rigid, and it is not possible to keep pace with the times by relying on one or two experts, let alone an overly qualified financial and economic expert.
And in this appointment, the head of the Public Works Commission, Chen Jinde, seems out of place. The title of the commentary article published by Taiwan's "United Daily News" is directly "Chen Jinde spoils a pot of porridge", because Chen Jinde is too controversial. The article cites "Chen Jinde's gas explosion when he was the director of Kaohsiung's environmental protection bureau, a power outage when he was the chairman of PetroChina, the loosening of homestays without regard to farmland when he was the acting county magistrate of Yilan, and the impeachment of the supervisory agency for operating illegal homestays while serving as a public office, and the private enterprises where he served as an independent director caused a lot of controversy", the controversy mainly focused on his integrity, and his right to rent-seeking and eating was ugly, and now he is placed in a position where he controls a large amount of public resources, which inevitably makes people think of self-theft.
Chen Jinde (right)
Lai Qingde, who wanted to show "pragmatism", went wrong in such a key position, for no other reason, Lai Qingde was not popular in the DPP, and Chen Jinde was one of the early supporters of Lai Qingde, just like Liu Shifang, who was appointed as the head of the internal affairs department. In the last Taiwan election, Lai Qingde confronted Tsai Ing-wen and met with the eight Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) deputies at that time, and was later exposed by the media, and Liu Shifang was one of them. Chen Jinde, Pan Meng'an, Xu Liming, and Zhuo Rongtai are the four key players in the auxiliary election of Lai Qingde's team. The island's efforts to reap political benefits after winning the election are just to gain political benefits after winning the election, and both of them have been reused, and Chen Jinde will certainly not be left behind.
With the announcement of the personnel of Lai Qingde's administrative team, the structure of his first batch of administrative team members has been roughly formed, which can also show his thoughts.
In terms of foreign affairs and defense, Lai Qingde will continue to follow the "Tsai Ing-wen line" and "rely on the United States" to go to the dark. One of the manifestations is that when Tsai Ing-wen recently met with outsiders, she directly announced that Lin Jialong will be the future head of the foreign affairs department, and the current head Wu Zhaoxie's position will change. The announcement of these appointments should be made by Lai Qingde, and Tsai Ing-wen's unruly practice is very revealing.
In terms of culture, Lai Qingde will carry out the so-called "social transformation" and "cleansing people's hearts." He used Zheng Lijun and Ono to promote "de-Chinaization" nakedly through the shaping of literary and artistic works and cultural content.
On the economic front, the first thing he had to solve was the mess of the "five shortages" left by Tsai Ing-wen's eight years in power, so he unexpectedly chose people with professional backgrounds to solve the island's worsening economic crisis and energy crisis. However, whether these "experts," who lack a political background on the island, can survive in the harsh political jungle is also a big question mark.
However, some people pointed out that these are just Lai Qingde's image projects, and that he is a "face-saving authority" in vain. Because the real appointment will actually wait until after the "nine-in-one" election in Taiwan, when a large number of DPP members who will step down or fail to win the election will need to be arranged, and then Lai Qingde's real administrative team will take shape.
Zheng Wencan, who had not been arranged before, was reported this week to be invited by Lai Qingde to agree to serve as chairman of the SEF. Sources on the island said that Zheng Wencan has been relatively moderate in cross-strait relations for a long time, and Lai Qingde hopes to show goodwill to the other side of the strait through this appointment. Mr. Cheng's ability to govern in Taoyuan, where the blue is green, for eight years does show some of his partisan appeal. In his past conversations concerning cross-strait relations, he was also more cautious than Lai Qingde. However, in the past, the chairman of the SEF has always been a retired figure with a certain degree of social prestige, because it is relatively free of political constraints. Zheng Wencan's reputation has already plummeted due to the peach-colored incident, and his age is far from the time when he has no ambitions for the future. During the Tsai Ing-wen period, the two sides of the strait were at odds, and the SEF basically stopped. Similarly, if Lai Qingde remains unchanged, no matter how soft Zheng Wencan's stature is, he will not be able to improve cross-strait relations.
Author丨Xu Yi, special writer of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News
Editor丨Liu Liping, editor-in-chief of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News
Typesetting丨Dong Yi, Shenzhen Satellite TV direct news editor