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Chiang Yung-chang

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chiang.

Chiang Yung-chang (Chinese: 江永昌; born 22 October 1969) is a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Taipei County Council from 2006 to 2010, and served on the succeeding body, known as the New Taipei City Council, until his election to the Legislative Yuan in 2016.

Chiang Yung-chang
江永昌
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 2016 – 31 January 2024
Preceded byChang Ching-chung
Succeeded byChang Chih-lun
ConstituencyNew Taipei 8
Member of the New Taipei City Council
In office
25 December 2010 – 31 January 2016
ConstituencyDistrict 5 (Zhonghe)
Member of the Taipei County Council
In office
1 March 2006 – 25 December 2010
ConstituencyDistrict 2 (Zhonghe)
Personal details
Born (1969-10-22) 22 October 1969 (age 55)
Taipei County, Taiwan
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party
EducationNational Chung Hsing University (BS)
National Taiwan Normal University (MA)
National Taiwan University (MEng)
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (MA)

Education

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Chiang attended Zhonghe Elementary School [zh], Taipei County Hai-Shan Junior High School [zh], and Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School before earning a bachelor's of science degree in physics from National Chung Hsing University. He holds three master's degrees, one in political science from the National Taiwan Normal University, another in industrial engineering from National Taiwan University, and a third in finance from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Chiang has also taken master's-level coursework in law at National Taipei University.[1][2]

Political career

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Early and municipal political career

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Chiang began his political career as a legislative aide to Eugene Jao. He was elected to the final term of the Taipei County Council in 2005, and twice to the succeeding New Taipei City Council in 2010 and 2014.[1][2] As a city councillor, Chiang commented on the population density of his Zhonghe District.[3]

Legislative Yuan

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Chiang first ran for the Legislative Yuan in 2012 as a Democratic Progressive Party candidate for the New Taipei 8 seat. While formally completing his election registration, Chiang and a group of DPP candidates based in New Taipei dressed in Robin Hood costumes.[4] During his 2012 campaign, Chiang ran on the slogan "Taiwan hearts, Myanmar sentiments", in recognition of the large population of Sino-Burmese living in the area. Chiang lost to incumbent Chang Ching-chung.[5] Chiang defeated Chang in 2016,[6] and vacated his New Taipei City council seat.[7] Chiang won a second term on the Legislative Yuan in 2020, and did not contest the 2024 election.[8]

During his first term in office, Chiang proposed amendments to the Civil Servants Retirement Act, the Statute Governing the Retirement of School Faculty and Staff,[9] the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act,[10] and the Money Laundering Control Act.[11] In 2018, Chiang participated in the Legislative Yuan's internship program, providing experience to those who were interested in pursuing a political career.[12]

He supported the William Lai-led Executive Yuan's decision to raise wages for military personnel, civil servants and teachers, but criticized the same body for proposing amendments to the Labor Standards Act that would reduce workers' rights and working conditions.[13][14] Despite his criticisms of the proposed amendments, Chiang voted to advance them to committee review.[15] In his second term, Chiang expressed support for revising the Insurance Act to ensure that the labor rights of insurance agents were more protected.[16]

From his first term as a Legislative Yuan member, Chiang was active in discussions shaping the Taiwanese banking and related industries.[17] To this end, he drafted a bill mandating that a person employed by a financial institution could not lead their company's compliance and legal departments simultaneously, and that the top compliance officer should report directly to a board of directors instead of the company president.[18] Separately from the bill, he called for the financial sector as a whole to maintain a consistent information security standard.[19] This interest continued into his second term in office.[20][21][22][23][24] He also supported lowering taxes for young workers,[25] providing a tax exemption to small business,[26] and decreasing the consumption tax threshold for foreign visitors to Taiwan.[27]

Regarding public health and safety in Taiwan, Chiang advocated for third parties as well as drunk drivers to be held liable, offering an example of companies who encourage employees to drink at company-sanctioned events, but do not offer to pay for transportation services, instead allowing inebriated workers to drive themselves home.[28] During the COVID-19 pandemic, he urged the Ministry of Health and Welfare to issue cash subsidies to clinics that closed due to delays in the distribution of government funding,[29] and asked the Ministry of Economic Affairs to exempt hospitals from electricity rate hikes.[30] Additionally, Chiang called for laws against revenge pornography to be strengthened, and proposed a bill to amend the Criminal Code of the Republic of China [zh] to combat deepfaked media.[31][32]

Throughout his legislative tenure, Chiang maintained an interest in housing-related issues.[33][34][35][36]

A vote on lifting import restrictions on livestock treated with ractopamine was held in December 2020, during Chiang's second term in office. Chiang abstained from the vote, instead of voting in support, and the Democratic Progressive Party caucus fined him NT$30,000 and prohibited him from running for committee membership or party leadership positions for three years.[37][38] In February 2021, the DPP suspended Chiang's party membership for one year.[39] Also during his second term, Chiang supported harsher punishments for violations of the National Security Act[40] and opposed the proposed reactivation of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement and the Nanshi River-to-Shihmen Reservoir water diversion project.[41][42]

Personal life

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Chiang Yung-chang is married to Wu Shu-ching.[43] Wu is a middle school teacher.[44]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Chiang Yung-chang (9)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Chiang Yung-chang (10)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  3. ^ Kuo, Yen-hui (14 January 2014). "New Taipei City growth unbalanced". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  4. ^ "2012 ELECTIONS: Chen's son registers for elections". Taipei Times. 24 November 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Getting closer to voters with Burmese language flyers 推緬甸文宣　選將跟新住民　博感情". Taipei Times. 7 January 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  6. ^ Hsiao, Alison (17 January 2016). "ELECTIONS: DPP secures absolute majority in Legislative Yuan". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  7. ^ Chen, Wei-han (6 April 2017). "Migrants urged to run for DPP". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  8. ^ Lin, Tommy (1 June 2023). "DPP ready to take risks in elections". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  9. ^ Lin, James (21 April 2016). "Reforming pensions for public servants". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  10. ^ Chen, Wei-han (10 May 2017). "DPP mulls bill to seize assets of drug suspects". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  11. ^ Yang, Chun-hui; Chin, Jonathan (11 August 2017). "Seize Mirage kickbacks: legislator". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  12. ^ Yang, Chun-hui; Chung, Jake (2 August 2018). "DPP seeks recruits for new Legislative Yuan internships". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  13. ^ Lin, Sean (1 November 2017). "Lawmakers blast Cabinet's labor plan". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  14. ^ Lin, Sean (4 November 2017). "Lawmakers pan labor proposals". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  15. ^ Lin, Sean (19 November 2017). "Lawmaker castigated for sending labor bill to committee". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  16. ^ Kao, Shih-ching (12 June 2020). "Insurance agents, unions seek greater work rights". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  17. ^ Chen, Ted (26 December 2017). "FSC mulls tightening controls on service providers". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  18. ^ Chen, Ted (5 October 2017). "Koo survives first legislative Q&A as FSC chairman". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  19. ^ Chen, Ted (10 October 2017). "Bank may be fined over hacking theft". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  20. ^ Kao, Shih-ching (14 April 2020). "FSC investigates Hua Nan's controls". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  21. ^ Kao, Shih-ching (5 May 2020). "FSC keeping an eye on ex-Nan Shan chairman's plan". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  22. ^ Kao, Shih-ching (11 May 2021). "Line Bank report on crash not satisfactory: regulator". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  23. ^ "Amendment to curb financial fraud passed by legislature". Taipei Times. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  24. ^ "COVID insurance claims may exceed NT$41 billion: financial regulator". Central News Agency. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2024. Republished as: "COVID insurance claims could pass NT$41bn: FSC". Taipei Times. 24 May 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  25. ^ Lin, se (19 January 2018). "Legislative Yuan passes tax reform". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  26. ^ Chen, Cheng-yu; Pan, Jason (13 January 2023). "Small businesses deserve tax exemption: lawmakers". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  27. ^ "Lawmaker suggests lowering consumption tax refund threshold". Central News Agency. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2024. Republished as: "Chiang seeks to set lower consumption tax threshold". Taipei Times. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  28. ^ "Drunk driving curbs to be tightened". Taipei Times. 7 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  29. ^ Hsiao, Sherry; Hsieh, Chun-lin; Chung, Jake (10 September 2021). "COVID-19: Second batch of BioNTech shots arrive". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  30. ^ Hsieh, Chun-lin; Chin, Jonathan (1 July 2022). "Keep hospital power rates low: legislators". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  31. ^ Lee, Hsin-fang; Chien, Hui-ju; Chin, Jonathan (3 December 2021). "Cabinet to step up legislation on deepfake creators". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  32. ^ Pan, Jason (14 December 2021). "Revenge porn laws 'inadequate'". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  33. ^ "Suspect confesses to lighting deadly fire". Taipei Times. 8 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  34. ^ Pan, Jason (25 November 2017). "Suspect confesses to lighting deadly fire". Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  35. ^ Wu, Su-wei; Chin, Jonathan (6 February 2021). "Housing rights group pushes for legal reforms". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  36. ^ Hsieh, Chun-lin; Liu, Tzu-hsuan (14 September 2022). "Legislators vow to pass draft on property flipping". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  37. ^ Lin, Chia-nan (26 December 2020). "Ractopamine supporters' recall sought". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  38. ^ "DPP legislative caucus suspends 3 for ractopamine vote abstentions". Central News Agency. 30 December 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2024. Republished as: "DPP disciplines three lawmakers over pork vote". Taipei Times. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  39. ^ "Three DPP lawmakers suspended for ractopamine vote abstentions". Central News Agency. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  40. ^ Chen, Yu-fu; Liu, Tzu-hsuan (26 March 2022). "Amendments seek to curb China-backed infiltration". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  41. ^ Chen, Yu-fu; Chung, Jake (12 July 2023). "Pharmaceutical firms and doctors rally against cross-strait service trade deal". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  42. ^ Crook, Steven (8 February 2023). "Environmental Impact Assessment: Fixing Taiwan's water woes". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  43. ^ 邱, 書昱 (10 November 2019). "挺江永昌 卓榮泰、林飛帆：繼續挺好立委". Liberty Times (in Traditional Chinese). Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  44. ^ 李, 奇叡 (24 November 2022). "首次輔選獻給張嘉玲 江永昌夫人：優秀人才要留在中和". China Times (in Chinese). Yahoo! Taiwan. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
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