Hau Lung-pin
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| Hau Lung-pin 郝龍斌 |
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 Hau Lung-pin participated 2007 Taipei Game Show Opening Ceremony |
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| Assumed office December 26, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Ma Ying-Jeou |
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| Born | August 22, 1952 (age 54) Taipei, Taiwan |
| Political party | Kuomintang |
Hau Lung-pin (郝龍斌) (born on August 22, 1952 in Taiwan with ancestral roots in Jiangsu, Mainland China) is a politician in the Republic of China and is the current Mayor of Taipei. Hau is a member of the Kuomintang.
Hau, the son of former premier, General Hau Pei-tsun, left the Kuomintang in the early 1990s to join the New Party. He was elected as a legislator in 1995, and served until his appointment as chief of the central government's Environmental Protection Administration in 2001 under President Chen Shui-bian. He resigned from that position in 2003, ostensibly because he opposed the government's decision to phase out nuclear energy.
He was secretary-general of the Red Cross in Taiwan and rejoined the Kuomintang in January 2006.[1]
On May 27, 2006, Hau was selected as the KMT's candidate for the Taipei mayoral election, winning 60% of the primary vote. He was subsequently elected Mayor of Taipei in the Republic of China municipal elections, 2006, defeating DPP candidate and former premier Frank Hsieh with 53.81% of the popular vote.[2]
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| Preceded by Ma Ying-jeou |
Mayor of Taipei 2006 - |
Succeeded by current incumbent |
