Tsai Hsun-hsiung
{{Short description|Taiwanese politician}}
{{family name hatnote|Tsai|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Tsai Hsun-hsiung
| native_name = {{no bold|{{lang|zh-hans|蔡勳雄}}}}
| image = 蔡勳雄省主席.jpg
| caption =
| order1 =
| office1 = Minister of Council for Economic Planning and Development
| deputy1 =
| term_start1 = 10 September 2009
| term_end1 = 19 May 2010
| predecessor1 = Chen Tain-jy
| successor1 = Christina Liu
| order2 =
| office2 = Governor of Taiwan Province
| deputy2 =
| term_start2 = 20 May 2008
| term_end2 = 10 September 2009
| predecessor2 = Lin Hsi-yao
| successor2 = Chang Jin-fu
| order3 =
| office3 = Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration
| deputy3 =
| term_start3 = 10 June 1996
| term_end3 = 20 May 2000
| predecessor3 = Chang Lung-cheng
| successor3 = Edgar Lin
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|6|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Taiwan
| nationality =
| party = Kuomintang
| spouse =
| children =
| signature =
| education = National Taiwan University (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)
Princeton University (PhD)
}}
Tsai Hsun-hsiung ({{zh|t=蔡勳雄|p=Cài Xūnxióng}}; born 23 June 1941) is a Taiwanese architect and politician. He served as Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration from 1996 to 2000. Tsai was named the Governor of Taiwan Province in 2008 before being named the Minister of Council for Economic Planning and Development in 2009. He stepped down from the CEPD in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://ourworldleaders.com/Taiwan/Hsun-hsiung/TSAI |title=Hsun-hsiung Tsai, Minister Without Portfolio of Taiwan |publisher=Ourworldleaders.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-15}}
Early life and education
Tsai was born in Taiwan on 23 June 1941. His family was a prominent landowning family in Changhua during the Japanese rule of Taiwan. When Tsai was a child, his father was imprisoned for being a sympathetic to Marxism.{{Cite web |last=人間福報 |title=蔡勳雄 充滿禪意的政壇「一休」 {{!}} 人間臉譜 |url=https://www.merit-times.com.tw/NewsPage.aspx?unid=104471 |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=人間福報 |language=zh-Hant-TW}}
Tsai graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in 1964, then completed advanced studies in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned a Master of Science (M.S.) in urban studies and urban planning in 1974.{{cite news |date=20 October 2016 |title=Who's Who in the ROC |url=http://www.ey.gov.tw/en/Upload/WebArchive/4695/Who's%20Who%20in%20the%20ROC.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020105104/http://www.ey.gov.tw/en/Upload/WebArchive/4695/Who%27s%20Who%20in%20the%20ROC.pdf |archivedate=20 October 2016 |accessdate=5 May 2016 |agency=Executive Yuan}} Tsai then earned his Ph.D. in urban planning from Princeton University in 1979.{{cite web|url=http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=44041&ctNode=2229&mp=9|date=1 July 2008|title=The New Cabinet|publisher=Taiwan Today|accessdate=21 December 2016}}{{cite news |date=20 October 2016 |title=Who's Who in the ROC |url=http://www.ey.gov.tw/en/Upload/WebArchive/4695/Who's%20Who%20in%20the%20ROC.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020105104/http://www.ey.gov.tw/en/Upload/WebArchive/4695/Who%27s%20Who%20in%20the%20ROC.pdf |archivedate=20 October 2016 |accessdate=5 May 2016 |agency=Executive Yuan}}
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Category:Chairpersons of the Taiwan Provincial Government
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