Lee Wo-shih (; born 1 April 1960) is a Taiwanese

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. He was the Magistrate of Kinmen County from 20 December 2009 until 25 December 2014.

Education

Lee graduated from National Cheng Kung University with a bachelor's degree in

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and earned a master's degree in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

from

Ming Chuan University Ming Chuan University (MCU; ) is a private university with four campuses in Taipei, Taoyuan and Kinmen in Taiwan, as well as one in Michigan, United States. MCU also has international education centers in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand. ...

. He then earned his Ph.D. in political science and

international relations International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...

from

Xiamen University Xiamen University (XMU; ) is a public university in Siming, Xiamen, Siming, Xiamen, Fujian, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Pro ...

Political career

On 12 January 2008, he joined the 2008 Republic of China legislative election as an independent candidate from

Kinmen Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), only east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from wh ...

constituency. However, he lost the election.

Kinmen County Magistrate

2009 Kinmen County Magistrate election

Lee was elected as the Magistrate of Kinmen County after winning the 2009 Republic of China local election under the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...

on 5 December 2009 and took office on 20 December 2009.

Cross-strait marriages

On 10 October 2010, Li presided over a group of cross-strait marriages featuring several couples between Taiwanese and Chinese mainland people. The marriage was done to celebrate the national day of the Republic of China. The wedding ceremony featured traditional rites, such as parade floats and the couple sitting in palanquins and on horses.

Duty-free island Kinmen

In mid June 2013 speaking at an economic forum organized by Taiwan Competitiveness Forum and attended by people from

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and

mainland China "Mainland China", also referred to as "the Chinese mainland", is a Geopolitics, geopolitical term defined as the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War. In addit ...

, Li proposed Kinmen to be developed as duty-free island to boost tourism and the local economy. Kinmen can attract some of the 41.24 million tourists visiting the nearby

Xiamen Xiamen,), also known as Amoy ( ; from the Zhangzhou Hokkien pronunciation, zh, c=, s=, t=, p=, poj=Ē͘-mûi, historically romanized as Amoy, is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Stra ...

city last year to the island. Li had also asked the central ROC government to grant Chinese mainland tourists multiple-entry visas for Kinmen, and also asked

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to ease the current Kinmen one-day tour restrictions to two or three days.

Deminers memorial park opening ceremony

Speaking during the opening ceremony of a memorial park to commemorate the mine-laying activities in end of March 2014, Li said that Kinmen is no longer a place with full of buried mines, but it is a tourist spot featuring beautiful coastlines and historical relics from wartime.

Water supply from mainland China

Speaking during the official visit of

Fujian Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...

Communist Party Chief You Quan to Kinmen in mid-July 2014, Li asked You for a drop in price of the water supply from mainland China to Kinmen, in which it will connect Longhu Reservoir in

to Tienpu Reservoir in Kinmen. The current water price set by mainland China is CNY 2 per 1,000 liters.

2014 Kinmen County Magistrate election

Lee lost to independent

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in the 2014 Kinmen County magistrate election held on 29 November 2014.

Legal judgments

In 2017, the Kinmen branch of the Fuchien High Court found that Lee had violated the Anti-Corruption Act. An appellate ruling by the same court in 2021 reversed the decision. Following an appeal to the

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, the Kinmen Fuchien High Court ruled in 2024 that Lee was guilty, and sentenced him to 90 months imprisonment.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Wo-shih 1960 births Living people Magistrates of Kinmen County Ming Chuan University alumni