Zhu Lilun, as the new chairman of the Kuomintang, quickly proposed his own personnel arrangements after winning last month's party election, including the secretary-general, deputy secretary-general, and all the party affairs directors at the first level. However, the highly concerned post of vice chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang was not released at the first time, which also made the outside world speculate whether Zhu Lilun would emulate former party chairman Jiang Qichen and not set up a vice chairman. With Zhu Lilun officially taking charge of the Kuomintang, the list of three vice chairmen of the new section was also proposed. They are Chiayi Mayor Huang Minhui, former Mainland Affairs Council Director Xia Liyan, and Former KUOMINTang Chairman Lien Chan's son Lian Shengwen. These three people respectively carry Zhu Lilun's internal and external vision: stabilizing the basic plan for the election of county and city chiefs on the island of Taiwan, strengthening the pro-US posture, and strengthening the identity of young people. What is the specific situation, and wait for the next slow way.
Zhu Lilun officially took office
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > the history of Huang Minhui's development</h1>
Huang Minhui is a veteran member of the Kuomintang and was born in 1959 to a political family in the Chiayi region. Her father, Huang Yongqin, was a former Taiwan Provincial Councillor who earned more budgetary favors for the Chiayi region during his tenure and had a high reputation in the region. After graduating from the Chinese Department of National Taiwan Normal University, Huang Minhui returned to Chiayi University to study management, thus entering politics. She first served as a special assistant to her father's Huang Yongqin Office, and then moved to the field of public opinion representatives, becoming the public opinion representative of the Taiwan legislature in 1999, serving for six years. In 2005, Huang Minhui challenged the mayor of Chiayi for the first time, defeated Chen Lizhen of the Democratic Progressive Party, and was successfully elected mayor of Chiayi. During this period, Huang Minhui specialized in municipal aspects. In 2008, she won the right to hold a large fireworks celebration ceremony on the island of Taiwan for Chiayi, and held a grand fireworks display. In order to please voters, Taiwanese politicians like to do two things, one is to set off fireworks, and the other is to send money and shopping vouchers. Because the Taiwan region is an electoral society, currying favor with voters is a necessary procedure. The theme of this fireworks show is: "Centripetal Force for all people, a new century", and nearly two million people watched the fireworks display, and the people had a lot of fun. In December 2009, Huang Minhui was also successfully re-elected.
Zhu Lilun and Huang Minhui
After two consecutive terms as mayor of Chiayi, Huang Minhui returned to the Kuomintang to concentrate on the party. She became vice chairman of the Kuomintang as early as 2008, assisting Wu Boxiong, Ma Ying-jeou and Zhu Lilun as three party chairmen. In January 2016, Chu lost 3 million votes to Tsai Ing-wen in the Taiwan regional leadership election. Zhu Lilun resigned as party chairman immediately after losing the election, and Huang Minhui took the position of vice chairman interim, and she was also the first female party chairman (acting) in the history of the Kuomintang. In March 2016, in the KMT chairman election, Hong Xiuzhu defeated Huang Minhui to become the official chairman of the KMT, and Huang Minhui retreated to the second line. In 2018, the KMT went all out to lay out the local county mayoral elections, and the "Korean Wave" whirlwind rolled up by Han Hanyu increased the momentum of the entire KMT. Huang Minhui then made a comeback and once again attacked the mayor of Chiayi. She finally defeated the DPP's Tu Xingzhe by a narrow margin of more than 1,000 votes and won the mayoral throne again. In the past 3 years, Huang Minhui has deeply cultivated the place and played a banner, calling herself "Brave Mother". During her term of office, she respected the elderly and the poor, built Chiayi into a city that is very suitable for the elderly to live, and vigorously built cultural and educational facilities to promote the tourism industry.
Chiayi Mayor Huang Minhui
In 2021, the new crown epidemic broke out in Taiwan, with tens of thousands of infections and more than 800 deaths in a few months. Chiayi City, on the other hand, has the smallest number of infected people on the island, and the municipal government's epidemic prevention measures have won the hearts of the people. In the latest poll in October, the mayor of Chiayi was the most supportive politician in the entire Kuomintang ruling county and city, and only lost to the DEMOCRATIC Progressive Party's Pingtung county magistrate Pan Meng'an on the whole island, ranking second. Zhu Lilun used this old partner as vice chairman, and it was obvious that he wanted to use her to contribute to next year's local county mayoral election and stabilize the basic plan. In 2022, Huang Minhui is about to seek re-election, but the DPP has been slow to find a person to compete with it. Moreover, Huang Minhui is also a woman, which can increase the affinity of the entire Zhu Lilun team, and it is also a plus in the perception of the outside world. In the future, Huang Minhui's area of responsibility should be next year's county mayor election, in order to achieve Zhu Lilun's campaign promise, the KmT will win 16 seats in next year's county mayoral election, this pressure is still very large, with Huang Minhui's joining, Zhu Lilun can handle related matters more smoothly.
The three vice-chairmen elected Lu Xia Liyan, Huang Minhui and Lian Shengwen
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > veteran foreign affairs worker Xia Liyan and Lien Shengwen, son of Lien Chan, are out of the mountains again</h1>
Xia Liyan is a veteran foreign affairs worker in the Kuomintang and is now in his seventies. He began working in the Taiwan Foreign Affairs Department in 1982. Xia Liyan has been active in North America for a long time, and has spent more than 20 years in North America. His two sons also grew up in the United States, and the whole family has a deep American background. In 2009, Xia Liyan, then the acting head of the foreign affairs department, was criticized by the outside world for "not using strict enough words to cause poor social perception", when Taiwan experienced a serious typhoon and public resentment boiled over. Xia Liyan publicly apologized for this and announced his resignation and retirement. However, his resignation was not smooth, and Ma Ying-jeou still chose to reuse him, sending him to Indonesia for four years. In 2013, he returned to Taiwan from Indonesia to take over as deputy head of defense. In 2015 he further became chairman of the MAC and successfully facilitated a historic cross-strait meeting in Singapore.
Xia Liyan
In May 2016, Tsai Ing-wen officially took office. Xia Liyan also left the MAC and entered a large enterprise as a vice president. He stated at the time that he would not return to diplomacy. This time, Xia Liyan once again went out to serve as the vice chairman of the Kuomintang, and it was obvious that Zhu Lilun hoped to use his foreign affairs experience again and make the relationship between the Kuomintang and the United States become closer. Xia Liyan became the head of the political group in charge of the U.S. region in 1994 and spent more than a decade in the United States. This echoes Zhu Lilun's emphasis on the establishment of the KMT-us working group, and Xia Liyan's main area of responsibility should be this aspect. "Pro-US" is the primary policy set by Zhu Lilun, and in his eyes the United States is the manipulator behind the DPP's ascension to power and firmly monopolize Taiwan's power. As long as the KMT can break the relationship between the United States and the DPP and successfully replace it, the KMT can make a comeback and achieve a counterattack.
Xia Liyan has a deep background in the United States
In addition to Xia Liyan, who once promoted high-level meetings between the two sides of the strait, Lian Shengwen, the son of Lien Chan, who started the "ice-breaking journey" between the two sides of the strait, was also appointed vice chairman by Zhu Lilun. When Mr. Lien Chan was chairman of the Kuomintang, he led a delegation to the mainland, dissolving the decades-long political ice between the two sides of the strait, and the communication and understanding between the two sides of the strait began in 2005 from the moment Mr. Lien Chan set foot on the mainland land. Mr. Lien Chan can be said to have taken the first step in the vision of peaceful reunification of the two sides of the strait, which is enough to leave a strong mark in the annals of history. As the son of Lien Chan, Lien Shengwen has long been active in the business world. In 2005, Lien became a member of the Kuomintang's "Central Standing Committee" and began to venture into politics. But his political path was rather unsmooth, because the children of powerful families in him were too strong. When the DPP began to use populism to attack the KMT, Lien Shengwen became their target. In 2014, Lien Shengwen participated in the first public office election and ran for mayor of Taipei. At that time, the white power Ke Wenzhe began to rise, blowing a whirlwind of "vegetarians". The DPP cooperated with Ko Wen-che and was defeated by Lien Shengwen, and since then he has never participated in an election on the island.
Lien Chan (right) and Lien Sheng Wen (left)
Leaving the island's election stage, Lien Katsumun began to move into the youth field, and he became the chairman of the Youth Development Foundation, focusing on the youth segment. The KMT has long been regarded by the outside world as a "party of the elderly," and its active supporters are the elderly who are dying of old age. Young people are not interested in the KMT, but are more inclined to the DPP. Since the 2016 elections, young people have exploded with enormous electoral potential, with a large number of young people voting for the first time voting for the DPP and Tsai Ing-wen. This also caused the KMT to be defeated and even crushed by the DPP collectively. Zhu Lilun's appointment as chairman of the Kuomintang this time intended to open up a youth line belonging to the Kuomintang, and he appointed Ling Tao, who was only thirty years old, as the general head of the Kuomintang's propaganda department. And Lian Shengwen's appointment as vice chairman can also actively recruit young people to supplement the Kuomintang with fresh blood. Moreover, Lian Shengwen's background is also inextricably linked to the mainland, so such a personnel arrangement is a two-pronged one-stone arrangement, which is in line with the consistent tradition within the Kuomintang. This also allows us to see that the children of the powerful, the political family, the local power faction, and the senior bureaucrats are still the four beams and eight pillars within the Kuomintang, determining the future direction of the Kuomintang.
Lien Became Vice Chairman of the Kuomintang
However, Zhu Lilun's own cross-strait policy has always appeared vague and unclear, and it can be said that he "holds the pipa and half covers his face." And as he deleted the "no reunification, no independence, no armed forces" argument within the Kuomintang, many people on the mainland had some expectations for him. But now he has publicly declared that he opposes "one country, two systems." There is also a small episode here, that is, on the occasion of his declaration, he said that he opposed "one country, two systems" as opposing the "1992 Consensus." Later, after a formal revision by Ling Tao, director of the Kuomintang's Cultural and Propaganda Department, the misunderstanding was clarified. However, this point was seized by Su Zhenchang, and Zhu Lilun said: "The position often changes back and forth, whether it is a slip of the tongue or a mistake in the heart, we must make it clear." ”
Zhu Lilun
Judging from all indications, Zhu Lilun was reluctantly able to accept the "1992 Consensus" as stated by the Kuomintang, but chose to reject the goodwill released by the mainland in recent years. The title of the political program he put forward is: "Protecting Taiwan, Safeguarding Democracy, Fighting for the Future, and Returning to Power." In fact, these points have become highly consistent with the DPP's expositions and propositions, especially the first two items. Zhu Lilun hopes to use this to attract the support of middle voters, even light green voters. Because for the first time, the KMT's momentum was surpassed by the former third-ranked People's Party, facing an unprecedented crisis. Therefore, all of Zhu Lilun's lines are based on "returning to power" as the fundamental starting point. We can't base our hopes on it, and we can't bet all the treasure on Zhu Lilun. Therefore, we should firmly grasp the initiative of the two sides of the strait and strive to completely resolve the Taiwan issue in our generation. Although the future is bright, the road is still steep, and it remains to be seen whether Taiwan can truly return to the embrace of the motherland.