Yang Cheng-wu
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| office2 = Chairman of Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation
| term_start2 = 30 June 2023
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| 1blankname2 = General Manager
| 1namedata2 = Wu Fang-ming
| predecessor2 = Huang Hsiang-chun
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| office3 = Magistrate of Kinmen County
| term_start3 = 25 December 2018
| term_end3 = 25 December 2022
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| predecessor3 = Chen Fu-hai
| successor3 = Chen Fu-hai
| office4 = Member of Legislative Yuan
| term_start4 = 1 February 2016
| term_end4 = 25 December 2018
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| constituency4 = Kinmen County
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| predecessor4 = Yang Ying-hsiung
| successor4 = Chen Yu-chen
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| birth_place = Kinmen, Republic of China
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Yang Cheng-wu ({{zh|c=楊鎮浯|p=Yáng Zhènwú}}; born 26 June 1972) is a Taiwanese politician. He is the incumbent chairman of the Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation. He had served as Magistrate of Kinmen County since 25 December 2018 until 25 December 2022, having won the office in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections.{{cite news|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201811240016.aspx|first1=William|last1=Yen|date=24 November 2018|title=Kuomintang reclaims Kinmen County seat|publisher=Focus Taiwan|access-date=26 November 2018}} Prior to contesting the magistracy, Yang represented Kinmen County in the Legislative Yuan.
Education
Yang obtained his bachelor's degree in economics from Chinese Culture University and earned his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom.{{cite web|url=https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=12147|title=Yang, Cheng-Wu|publisher=Legislative Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan)|access-date=26 November 2018}}
Political career
=Legislative Yuan=
Yang became the Ninth Legislative Yuan member after winning the 2016 general election representing Kinmen County Constituency.
In August 2017, Yang called on for closer cooperation between the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Ministry of Transportation and Communications in creating the helipad and providing the agreed medical evacuation helicopter for Kinmen residents.{{cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2017/08/06/2003676025|first1=Cheng-ting|last1=Wu|first2=Jake|last2=Chung|title=Kinmen to get medivac helicopter|newspaper=Taipei Times|access-date=27 November 2018}}
In October 2017, Yang participated in the local Kinmen referendum in questioning the establishment of casino in the county. He openly opposed such establishment and supported the negative outcome of the referendum.{{cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2017/10/29/2003681240|first1=Cheng-ting|last1=Wu|first2=Li-jen|last2=Liu|date=29 October 2018|title=Kinmen nixes casino development|newspaper=Taipei Times|access-date=28 November 2018}}
On 5 August 2018, Yang attended the ceremony marking the first day of Kinmen importing water from mainland China.{{cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2018/08/06/2003698048|first1=Yi-hsuan|last1=Lu|date=6 August 2018|title=Kinmen starts importing Chinese water|newspaper=Taipei Times|access-date=27 November 2018}}
=2018 Kinmen County magistrate election=
| style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none;" class="wikitable collapsible"
! colspan="3" width="600" |2018 Kuomintang Kinmen County magistrate primary results |
| width=80| Candidates
!width=80| Place !width=80| Result |
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| Yang Cheng-wu
| style="background: #000099; text-align:center"| {{color|white|Called In}} | style="text-align:center"| Walkover |
On 24 November 2018, Yang won the Kinmen County magistrate election defeating the incumbent independent Chen Fu-hai.
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| colspan="6"|2018 Kinmen County mayoral results{{cite web|url=https://www.cec.gov.tw/pc/en/TC/nm09020000000000000.html|title=2018 Local Elections|publisher=www.cec.gov.tw}} | |||
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| width=35| No.
!width=200| Candidate !width=120| Party !width=75| Votes !width=75| Percentage !width=49| | |||
| 1 | Yang Cheng-wu | 20px Kuomintang | style="border-left:4px solid #000099;" align="right"|23,520
|align="right"|47.48% |align="center"|20px |
| 2 | Hung Chih-heng (洪志恒) | Kinmen Gaoliang Party | style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" align="right"|832
|align="right"|1.69% |align="center"| |
| 3 | Wang Cheng-hua (汪承樺) | UNESCO budget e-league | style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" align="right"|403
|align="right"|0.82% |align="center"| |
| 4 | Chen Fu-hai | 20px Independent | style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" align="right"|22,719
|align="right"|46.15% |align="center"| |
| 5 | Hsieh Yi-zhen (謝宜璋) | 20px Independent | style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" align="right"|1,389
|align="right"|2.82% |align="center"| |
| 6 | Hong Ho-cheng (洪和成) | 20px Independent | style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" align="right"|366
|align="right"|0.74% |align="center"| |
| bgcolor=EEEEEE
| colspan="3" align="right" | Total voters | colspan="3" align="left" | 117,913 | ||
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| colspan="3" align="right" | Valid votes | colspan="3" align="left" | 49,229 | ||
| bgcolor=EEEEEE
| colspan="3" align="right" | Invalid votes | colspan="3" align="left" | | ||
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| colspan="3" align="right" | Voter turnout | colspan="3" align="left" | 41.75% |
Magistracy
To develop Kinmen, Yang held his first official visit to mainland China just about two months after his inauguration as the county magistrate. While visiting Quanzhou and Xiamen in Fujian, he led a delegation from various department of the county government to promote the tourism and products of Kinmen to the mainland people.{{cite news|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201901310009.aspx|first1=Huei-min|last1=Huang|first2=Flor|last2=Wang|date=31 January 2019|title=Kinmen magistrate touts efforts to improve livelihoods|publisher=Focus Taiwan|access-date=1 February 2019}}
On 12 August 2019, Yang, along with Penghu County magistrate Lai Feng-wei and Lienchiang County magistrate Liu Cheng-ying, visited Beijing and met with Taiwan Affairs Office director Liu Jieyi requesting the mainland Chinese government to lift up individual travel ban of mainland Chinese tourists to the three counties due to the constraint cross-strait relations. The mainland government eventually agreed to lift up the ban on 20 September 2019.{{cite news|date=17 September 2019|url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3778261|title=China to lift individual travel ban for Taiwan's offshore counties|publisher=Taiwan News|access-date=23 September 2019}}
In late April 2020, Magistrate Yang visited Wuqiu for the first time as magistrate and stayed overnight.{{cite web|url=https://udn.com/news/story/7327/4524819|script-title=zh:楊鎮浯上任首度訪視烏坵 Longstay感受偏鄉的不便|language=zh-tw|date=28 April 2020|access-date=6 May 2020|website=聯合新聞網|author=Tsai Chia-Chen {{lang|zh-tw|蔡家蓁}}}}
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