15 Facts About Chang Li-shan

Chang Li-shan served on the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2008, and again from 2016 to 2018, when she was elected magistrate of Yunlin County.

Chang Li-shan attended Makuang Elementary School in Tuku, Yunlin, then enrolled at Tuku Junior High School before graduating from Stella Matutina Girls' High School.

Chang Li-shan was elected to the Legislative Yuan in December 2004, as an independent.

Chang Li-shan won election from Yunlin County handily, with over 51,000 votes supporting her candidacy.

In May 2005, fellow legislator Yin Ling-ying sued Chang Li-shan for slapping her while the two lawmakers were lobbying the World Health Assembly in Geneva to admit Taiwan as an observer to the body.

Chang Li-shan stepped down from the legislature at the end of her term in January 2008, and considered running for the Yunlin County magistracy in the 2009 Taiwanese local elections.

Chang Li-shan secured the support of the Kuomintang's Hsu Shu-po in June 2009, after he had dropped out of the race.

Subsequently, the Chang family political faction pulled away from the Kuomintang, and Chang Li-shan became chair of the Taiwan Agricultural Association.

Chang Li-shan faced Democratic Progressive Party candidate Lee Chin-yung, and took on the campaign platform "Blue Ocean Yunlin," emphasizing "big service," utilizing technology to form a strong welfare system and empathetic administration.

Chang Li-shan was nominated by the Kuomintang for a party list seat, and returned to the Legislative Yuan via proportional representation in 2016.

Chang Li-shan has criticized several DPP agricultural policies, and the Council of Agriculture.

Chang Li-shan opposed the import of pork from the United States containing ractopamine, and called for more public hearings regarding Japanese imports originating from the areas affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Chang Li-shan took issue with the Democratic Progressive Party-led government's 2017 revision of electoral law pertaining to farmers' associations.

Chang Li-shan suggested that a renewable energy park slated for construction in Tainan as part of the Forward-Looking Infrastructure Development Program should be relocated to Yunlin County, because Yunlin was Taiwan's leading producer in solar energy.

On 24 November 2018, Chang Li-shan won the Yunlin County magistrate election.