16 Facts About Chung Chia-pin

Chung Chia-pin served on the National Assembly from 1996 to 2000.

Chung Chia-pin was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2016.

Chung Chia-pin then earned a bachelor's degree in history from National Taiwan University.

Chung Chia-pin was active as a student activist in the 1980s and helped lead the Wild Lily movement of 1990.

Chung Chia-pin was elected to the National Assembly in 1996 and served until 2000.

Later, Chung Chia-pin worked for the Council for Cultural Affairs under chairwoman Tchen Yu-chiou.

Chung Chia-pin has served the Democratic Progressive Party as deputy secretary-general under Chang Chun-hsiung.

Chung Chia-pin joined the People Sovereignty Action Network and protested the 2010 signing of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement.

Chung Chia-pin acted as Pingtung County Government spokesman during the 2014 Taiwan food scandal, accusing the Ministry of Health and Welfare of "setting up" Pingtung in a leak of confidential information to Ting Hsin International Group, one of the companies involved in the food scare.

Chung Chia-pin ran for a Pingtung County legislative seat in 2016, and won.

In May 2016, Chung Chia-pin became one of the first ten legislators to support an amendment to the Act of Gender Equality in Employment intended to lengthen the period of maternity leave given to partners of unmarried women.

In May 2017, Chung Chia-pin founded the "Renewable Power Promotion Alliance" alongside fellow legislators Chen Man-li, Su Chih-fen, and Yang Yao.

Chung Chia-pin has expressed support for the maintenance of military dependents' villages and asked both the Ministries of Education and National Defense to help retired military instructors find jobs.

Chung Chia-pin has attempted to lift legal restrictions on foreign workers in Taiwan.

Chung Chia-pin is the chair of Taiwan's Taiwan-Israel Congressional Association, which was established in February 2024 to increase ties between Taiwan and Israel.

Taiwanese civil society groups called on Chung Chia-pin to cut ties with Israel unless there is a ceasefire.