1. Sun Yun-suan was a Taiwanese engineer and politician.
11 Facts About Sun Yun-suan
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Sun Yun-suan returned to Taiwan and joined the ROC government as Minister of Communications in 1967.
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Sun Yun-suan is credited as one of the chief architects of Taiwan's "economic miracle" that led Taiwan to become one of the East Asian Tigers.
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Sun Yun-suan championed the establishment of high-technology industries that would later become the basis of the Taiwanese economy.
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Sun Yun-suan initiated the development of the Industrial Technology Research Institute and the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park which would serve as a major electronics and semiconductor manufacturing hub.
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Sun Yun-suan is credited for transforming Taiwan's existing export industries, which were developed in the 1960s and centered on textiles, shoes, plastic toys, and agriculture, to the more sustainable fields of petrochemicals, machine tools, and electronics.
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Sun Yun-suan was once regarded as heir apparent to Chiang Ching-kuo, but he suffered a stroke during a legislative interpellation session in 1984, ending his political career.
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Sun Yun-suan resigned as premier on 20 May 1984 and was appointed to the largely honorary position of senior advisor to the President of the Republic of China.
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Nevertheless, Sun Yun-suan remained politically active in his later years and campaigned on behalf of KMT presidential candidate Lien Chan in the 2004 presidential election.
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Sun Yun-suan died at the age of 92 while hospitalized at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei as a result of myocardial infarction and sepsis.
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Sun Yun-suan's ashes were interred at the Keelung Hsin Hsin Cemetery.