Lien Chan

Lien Chan
連戰
7th Vice President of the Republic of China
In office 20 May 1996 – 20 May 2000
President	Lee Teng-hui
Preceded by	Lee Yuan-tsu
Succeeded by	Annette Lu
Premier of the Republic of China
In office 27 February 1993 – 31 August 1997
President	Lee Teng-hui
Vice Premier	Hsu Li-teh
Preceded by	Hau Pei-tsun
Succeeded by	Vincent Siew
3rd Chairman of the Kuomintang
In office 24 March 2000 – 19 August 2005
Deputy	Vincent Siew Wang Jin-pyng Chiang Chung-ling Wu Po-hsiung Lin Cheng-zi Chiang Pin-kung Ma Ying-jeou
Preceded by	Lee Teng-hui
Succeeded by	Ma Ying-jeou
Governor of Taiwan Province
In office 16 June 1990 – 25 February 1993
Preceded by	Chiu Chuang-huan
Succeeded by	James Soong
10th Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 20 July 1988 – 1 June 1990
Premier	Yu Kuo-hwa Lee Huan
Preceded by	Ting Mao-shih
Succeeded by	Fredrick Chien
Vice Premier of the Republic of China
In office 1 May 1987 – 22 July 1988
Premier	Yu Kuo-hwa
Preceded by	Lin Yang-kang
Succeeded by	Shih Chi-yang
11th Minister of Transportation and Communications
In office 1 December 1981 – 23 April 1987
Premier	Sun Yun-suan Yu Kuo-hwa
Preceded by	Lin Chin-sheng
Succeeded by	Kuo Nan-hong [zh]
Chair of National Youth Commission
In office 1 August 1978 – 30 November 1981
Premier	Sun Yun-suan
Preceded by	Wang Wei-nong
Succeeded by	Kao Ming-hui
Personal details
Born	(1936-08-27) 27 August 1936 (age 87) Xi'an, Shaanxi, Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang
Spouse	Fang Yu ​ (m. 1965)​
Relations	Sean Lien (Son), Arlene Lien (Daughter)
Education	National Taiwan University (BA) University of Chicago (MA, PhD)

Lien Chan (Chinese: 連戰; pinyin: Lián Zhàn; Wade–Giles: Lien² Chan⁴; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liân Chiàn; born 27 August 1936) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 1990 to 1993, Premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, Vice President of the Republic of China from 1996 to 2000, and was the Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 2000 to 2005, apart from various ministerial posts he had also held. Lien ran for the President of the Republic of China on behalf of the Kuomintang twice in 2000 and 2004, but both lost to Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party. Upon his retirement as KMT Chairman in August 2005, he was given the title Honorary Chairman of KMT. He is highly credited after holding a groundbreaking visit to Mainland China in his capacity as the Chairman of the Kuomintang to meet with the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao on 29 April 2005, the first meeting between the two party leaders after the end of Chinese Civil War in 1949, which subsequently helped thaw the long-stalled cross-strait relations.^[1]