13 Facts About Chang Hsien-yao

Chang Hsien-yao or Vincent Chang is a Taiwanese politician.

Chang Hsien-yao was the Special Deputy Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan in September 2013 until August 2014 and concurrently as the Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Straits Exchange Foundation in February 2014 until August 2014.

Chang Hsien-yao had been teaching at Taiwanese universities as assistant professor at Nanhua University, Central Police University and Chinese Culture University.

In mid April 2013, Chang Hsien-yao said that the ROC government is making the preparation for both sides across the Taiwan Strait to establish representative offices on each side by the end of 2013 after a draft bill was approved at the ROC cabinet meeting.

In end of June 2013, Chang Hsien-yao joined a delegation led by Lin Join-sane, Chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation, to visit Shanghai from Taiwan for the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement signing.

Chang Hsien-yao said that the signing of the trade will make Taiwan and Mainland China the most stable market in the world and serves as a path for Taiwan towards the membership of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.

In early February 2014, Chang Hsien-yao was appointed to be the vice chairman and secretary-general of the Straits Exchange Foundation, replacing Kao Koong-lian who had earlier on tendered his resignation.

Chang Hsien-yao's appointed made the promotion of SEF Maa Shaw-chang from Deputy Secretary-General to become Deputy Chairman to help Chang Hsien-yao share the workload.

The Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice even suspected that Chang Hsien-yao had been recruited as a spy for the Chinese Communist Party.

Chang Hsien-yao was then being investigated by the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office for breaching the National Security Information Protection Act for disclosing five confidential and secret pieces of information on cross-strait economics, trade and trade service agreements on at least two separate occasions.

Chang Hsien-yao announced that his bid to contest the Kuomintang nomination for the Taipei mayoralty in February 2018.

Days before the 2024 Taiwanese general election, Chang Hsien-yao was questioned by the Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office about suspected violations of the Anti-Infiltration Act and the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Act, and later released on bail.

Chang Hsien-yao was formally charged with violating the Anti-Infiltration Act in February 2025.