Chou Hsi-wei

Chou Hsi-wei
周錫瑋
Chou Hsi-wei; 周錫瑋
	Chou at the 2008 Tour de Taiwan press conference
Magistrate of Taipei County
	In office; 20 December 2005 – 25 December 2010
Deputy	Lee Shih-chuan[1]; Lee Hong-yuan
Preceded by	Su Tseng-chang; Lin Hsi-yao (acting)
Succeeded by	Office abolished, with Eric Chu as Mayor of New Taipei
Member of the Legislative Yuan
	In office; 1 February 1999 – 31 January 2005
Constituency	Taipei County 1
Personal details
Born	11 March 1958; Changhua County, Taiwan
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang
Other political; affiliations	People First Party
Alma mater	Fu Jen Catholic University; University of Southern California

Chou Hsi-wei (Chinese: 周錫瑋; pinyin: Zhōu Xíwěi; Wade–Giles: Chou¹ Hsi²-wei³, born 11 March 1958) is a former Taipei County magistrate in Taiwan. He was formerly a member of the People's First Party, but switched allegiance to the Kuomintang[2] shortly before the county chief elections. He previously served as a legislator in the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China.

Education

Chou earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Fu Jen Catholic University and master's degree in business administration and public administration from University of Southern California in the United States.[3]

Political career

Chou served two terms on the Legislative Yuan before he was elected as the Magistrate of Taipei County in the 2005 Republic of China local election held on 3 December 2005 and took office on 20 December 2005. In October 2017, Chou declared his candidacy for the New Taipei mayoralty.[4] He registered for the Kuomintang mayoral primary in March 2018.[5] In February 2019, Chou announced his bid for the 2020 Kuomintang presidential nomination.[6]

2019 Kuomintang Republic of China presidential primary results
Candidates	Place	Result
Han Kuo-yu	Nominated	44.81%
Terry Gou	2nd	27.73%
Eric Chu	3rd	17.90%
Chou Hsi-wei	4th	6.02%
Chang Ya-chung	5th	3.54%

Notes

"Lee Shih-chuan named Executive Yuan's secretary-general(Executive Yuan, R.O.C. (Taiwan)-Press Releases)". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
"Chou causes blue-camp uproar". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
"Untitled Document". Archived from the original on 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
Lai, Hsiao-tung; Tseng, Wei-chen; Shih, Hsiao-kuang (9 October 2017). "First KMT candidate confirmed for New Taipei City mayoral election primaries". Taipei Times. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
Hsu, Stacy (8 March 2018). "Two more join KMT's New Taipei City primary". Taipei Times. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
Hsu, Stacy (2 March 2019). "KMT brass might select candidate: Wu". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2 March 2019.

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[1] "Lee Shih-chuan named Executive Yuan's secretary-general(Executive Yuan, R.O.C. (Taiwan)-Press Releases)". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-03-02.

[2] "Chou causes blue-camp uproar". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2009-05-04.

[3] "Untitled Document". Archived from the original on 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2014-12-21.

[4] Lai, Hsiao-tung; Tseng, Wei-chen; Shih, Hsiao-kuang (9 October 2017). "First KMT candidate confirmed for New Taipei City mayoral election primaries". Taipei Times. Retrieved 31 December 2017.

[5] Hsu, Stacy (8 March 2018). "Two more join KMT's New Taipei City primary". Taipei Times. Retrieved 8 March 2018.

[6] Hsu, Stacy (2 March 2019). "KMT brass might select candidate: Wu". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2 March 2019.