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Kung Ming-hsin
Taiwanese economist and politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kung Ming-hsin (Chinese: 龔明鑫; pinyin: Gōng Míngxīn; born 3 February 1964) is a Taiwanese economist and politician. He is the incumbent minister of the National Development Council and the Minister without Portfolio of the Executive Yuan of Taiwan.
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Education
Kung graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University with a bachelor's degree in statistics in 1986. He then earned a master's degree in economics from National Taiwan University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in economics from National Chung Hsing University in 1997.[1] His doctoral dissertation was titled, "The Study of Growth Sources and Quality Increase of Taiwan's Manufacturing Industry" (Chinese: 我國製造業成長來源與出口品品質改善之實證研究).[2]
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Political career
Kung was the vice president of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research while working with Tsai Ing-wen's incoming presidential administration.[3][4] He was appointed in April 2016 to the Lin Chuan-led Executive Yuan as the deputy minister of National Development Council.[5] Kung was named Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs on 8 September 2017.[6] He served in that role through December 2018,[7] after which he was appointed a minister without portfolio in charge of economic affairs.[8][9]
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References
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