Liu Cheng-ying (; Foochow Romanized: Làu Cĕng-éng; born 24 August 1958) is a politician in the

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. He is the Magistrate of Lienchiang County since 25 December 2014.

Education

Liu obtained his master's degree in preventive medicine from

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Early careers

Liu had been a doctor and the director of Lienchiang County Hospital.

Magistrate of Lienchiang County

2014 Magistrate election campaign

During the campaign for the 2014 Lienchiang County magistrate election at the end of 2014, Liu's campaign focused on the policies to improve the traffic and tourism in Matsu Islands. Liu was elected as the Magistrate of Lienchiang County from

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(KMT) after winning Lienchiang Magistrate election held on 29 November 2014, defeating fellow KMT and incumbent Magistrate

Yang Sui-sheng Yang Sui-sheng (; Foochow Romanized: Iòng Chŭi-sĕng; born 10 November 1954) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of Lienchiang County from 20 December 2009 until 25 December 2014. Early life Airplane incident In 1996, while he w ...

2015 Mawei-Matsu Lantern Festival

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 13th Mawei-Matsu Lantern Festival held in Mawei District, Fuzhou,

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on 2 March 2015, Liu said that the festival had provided a great platform for cross-strait exchanges. He added that both Mawei and Matsu have similar culture, dialects and lifestyle, thus cooperation and exchanges should be strengthen, saying that more favorable policies will be introduced in the future to attract more visitors from

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to visit Matsu.

2016 Mainland China visit

In September 2016, Liu with another seven magistrates and mayors from Taiwan visited

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, which were Hsu Yao-chang (Magistrate of Miaoli County), Chiu Ching-chun (Magistrate of

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), Yeh Hui-ching (Deputy Mayor of

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), Chen Chin-hu (Deputy Magistrate of Taitung County), Lin Ming-chen (Magistrate of Nantou County),

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(Magistrate of Hualien County) and Wu Cherng-dean (Deputy Magistrate of Kinmen County). Their visit was aimed to reset and restart cross-strait relations after President Tsai Ing-wen took office on 20 May 2016. The eight local leaders reiterated their support of

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under the 1992 consensus. They met with

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Head

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and

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of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Yu Zhengsheng.

2018 reelection campaign

The Kuomintang endorsed Liu for a second term as Lienchiang County magistrate in December 2017.

2019 Mainland China visit

On 12 August 2019, Liu, along with Penghu County Magistrate Lai Feng-wei and Kinmen County Magistrate Yang Cheng-wu, visited

and met with

Director Liu Jieyi requesting Mainland China 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Cheng-ying 1958 births Living people Magistrates of Lienchiang County