1. Hau Lung-pin is a Taiwanese politician and chemist.
19 Facts About Hau Lung-pin
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Hau Lung-pin joined the Kuomintang in 2006 and has served as vice chairman of the party in 2014 and from 2016 to 2020.
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Hau Lung-pin is the son of former premier and 4-star General, Hau Pei-tsun.
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Hau Lung-pin was born in Taiwan with ancestral roots in Yancheng, Jiangsu, China.
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When Hau Lung-pin returned to Taiwan after his doctoral studies, he taught as a professor at the Graduate Institute of Food Science and Technology at National Taiwan University.
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Hau Lung-pin left the Kuomintang in the early 1990s to join the New Party.
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Hau Lung-pin 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.
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Hau Lung-pin served as the secretary-general of the Red Cross in Taiwan and rejoined the Kuomintang in January 2006.
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Hau Lung-pin spoke at Taipei City Hall shortly after the 2013 Guang Da Xing No 28 incident involving Taiwan and the Philippines occurred on 9 May 2013 in disputed water of the South China Sea.
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Hau Lung-pin advised Taipei residents not to travel to the Philippines.
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In early July 2013, Hau Lung-pin led a delegation to attend the Shanghai-Taipei City Forum in Shanghai.
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Hau Lung-pin was named a vice chairman of the Kuomintang in April 2014 and served until November.
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Hau Lung-pin declared his candidacy for the Keelung City legislative seat in July 2015.
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Hau Lung-pin announced his intention to run for the position of Kuomintang chair on 21 January 2016, shortly after former party leader Eric Chu had resigned the position following defeat in the presidential elections.
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Hau Lung-pin dropped out of the chairmanship election a few days later.
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Hau Lung-pin was reappointed a vice chairman of the Kuomintang in May 2016.
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Hau Lung-pin finished third in a field of six candidates.
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Hau Lung-pin resigned his position as a vice chair of the Kuomintang on 15 January 2020, and declared his candidacy for the top post five days later, as party chairman Wu Den-yih had resigned his post.
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Hau Lung-pin is married to Kao Lang-sin, with whom he has three children.