21 Facts About Wang Jung-chang

Wang Jung-chang is a Taiwanese politician who is a member of the Control Yuan.

Wang Jung-chang previously served in the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2008 and again from 2016 to 2020.

Wang Jung-chang was named a Democratic Progressive Party legislative candidate later that year and elected via party list proportional representation.

Two months after taking office, Wang Jung-chang advocated for the government to investigate the amount of mercury used in imported batteries from elsewhere in Asia.

Wang Jung-chang accused Fubon Securities of discrimination against a person with hearing loss in 2006, and protested police actions in an arrest of a person with mental disabilities in 2007.

Wang Jung-chang stepped down at the end of his legislative term in January 2008 and later that year, became the secretary general for the League of Social Welfare Organizations in Taiwan.

Between June 2008 and December 2009, Wang Jung-chang was a member of the Executive Yuan Tax Reform Committee.

The next year, Wang Jung-chang drew attention to Taiwan's increasing budget deficit.

Wang Jung-chang was considered for a position on the Democratic Progressive Party list prior to the January 2012 legislative elections.

The Ministry of Finance invited Wang Jung-chang to participate in a task force considering taxation and finance issues in March 2012.

Wang Jung-chang stated that the finance ministry's 2012 bill to reform security gains tax benefited the rich over the poor and made it difficult to consider other tax reform.

Wang Jung-chang resumed his position with the League of Welfare Organizations for the Disabled.

Wang Jung-chang served as an advisor to Wellington Koo's 2014 Taipei mayoral campaign.

Wang Jung-chang opposed a 2015 proposal to cut Taiwan's transaction tax rate, stating that the cut would increase economic inequality.

Wang Jung-chang called for pension reform instead, supporting extensive and centralized review of the system, stating that without such a review, the separate pension funds would go bankrupt in the coming decades.

Wang Jung-chang was placed on the proportional representation ballot for the second time in 2015, and returned to the Legislative Yuan.

Wang Jung-chang signed on in support of a 2016 amendment to the Act of Gender Equality in Employment, which made it possible for both married and unmarried parents to claim family leave.

Wang Jung-chang suggested that retirement age for Taiwanese schoolteachers be raised to 65 later that year, and drew criticism from the National Federation of Education Unions.

Wang Jung-chang was named to the Legislative Yuan Finance Committee in September 2016, and retained his position in February 2017.

In June 2020, Wang Jung-chang was nominated by the Tsai Ing-wen presidential administration to serve on the Control Yuan.

Wang Jung-chang was to serve on the National Human Rights Commission.