(Taipei Comprehensive News) The Taiwan Prefecture announced on Wednesday (March 22) that it approved the approved representative of the representative office of Taipei in Singapore to retire, and Tong Zhenyuan, former chairman of the Taiwan Government Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee, took over.
Taiwan's website issued a presidential order yesterday, announcing that the current representative of Liang Guoxin, a representative of Singapore, has been retired, and Tong Zhenyuan is the representative of Singapore.
Comprehensive Joint Newspaper and Liberty reported that Tong Zhenyuan also announced this on personal Facebook.He said that he was very grateful to Taiwan Tsai Ing -wen for his appointment in Singapore. He was honored and responsible and would go all out.
Tong Zhenyuan said that Taiwan has a long -term friendly relationship with Singapore. It is an important economic and trade partner for each other, maintaining close exchanges in various fields, and signing 15 agreements or memo, including promotion and protection investment agreement signed in 1990.Economic partner agreement signed in 2013.In the future, he will continue to promote bilateral exchanges and cooperation to strengthen friendship and partnership between Taiwan and Singapore.
Tong Zhenyuan also reviewed a seminar at Singapore in early 2016. In addition to meeting at the National University of Singapore, he also visited the botanical gardens and urban areas next to Singapore.I look forward to work in Singapore.
Tong Zhenyuan is a scholar, from staff to government officials, and has experience in Southeast Asia.He had previously served as chairman of the Overseas Chinese Committee, and after reorganization of the cabinet, he unloaded his position. The outside world had speculated whether he would return to the teaching position.
According to the United Daily report, Tong Zhenyuan stepped down as chairman of the Overseas Chinese Committee earlier this year. The former vice chairman Xu Jiaqing took over. The reason behind the departure was for the balance of the DPP faction. Therefore, Xu Jiaqing took over.I'm depressed, and go overseas to disperse.However, at the ceremony of presented the first -class merit medal and the Professional Medal of Huaguang Overseas Chinese Affairs on the 13th of this month, he smiled. At that time, it was reported that he was very likely to send the point to the place, but the location was not yet determined.
Tong Zhenyuan has previously served as a representative of the Taiwan government in Thailand, a member of the National Security Conference Consulting, a spokesman for the Executive Yuan, the director of the Politburo Foreign Market Research Center, a special professor of the Institute of Political Science and the National Development Research Institute, and the host of the China Economic Analysis Plan for the Vision Foundation.
