Chen Chwen-jing

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.

Chen Chwen-jing (Chinese: 陳純敬; pinyin: Chén Chúnjìng) or Jonathan Chen^[3] is a Taiwanese civil engineer and academic. He has served as the Deputy Minister of the Interior between March 2014 to May 2016, having previously served in the Ministry of Transportation and Communications from 2013 to 2014.^[4]

Chen Chwen-jing
陳純敬
Deputy Minister of the Interior
In office 8 March 2014 – 20 May 2016
Minister	Chen Wei-zen
Preceded by	Hsiao Chia-chi[1]
Succeeded by	Hua Ching-chun
Political Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications
In office 18 February 2013 – 8 March 2014
Minister	Yeh Kuang-shih
Preceded by	Yeh Kuang-shih
Succeeded by	Chen Jian-yu
Deputy Minister of Public Construction Commission of the Executive Yuan
In office 20 May 2012 – 18 February 2013
Minister	Chern Jenn-chuan
Preceded by	Wu Kuo-an[2]
Personal details
Education	National Taiwan University (BS) Soochow University (MS) North Carolina State University (MS, PhD)

Education

Chen graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering and graduated from Soochow University with a master's degree. He then completed graduate studies in the United States at North Carolina State University, where he earned a Master of Science (M.S.) and his Ph.D. in construction management and civil engineering.

ROC Transportation and Communications Political Deputy Ministry

Taiwan HSR explosive device discovery incident

Commenting on the criticism on the slow evacuation during the discovery of explosive device inside Taiwan High Speed Rail on 12 April 2013, speaking at Legislative Yuan in mid April 2013, Chen responded that the MOTC will review evacuation measures for Taiwan railways systems.^[5]

Stopover by Mainland Chinese in Taiwan

Speaking in early February 2014 at a forum on economics and finance legislation, Chen said that negotiating with Mainland China to allow Mainland Chinese to transit stop in Taiwan heading to a third destination will be a very important issues on cross-strait transportation, especially after the establishment of three links in 2008 between the two sides. The current obstacle is that the Chinese mainland government requires their own people to have an entry permit to enter Taiwan, even for just a transfer.^[6]