Kaohsiung vice mayor to chair CPC

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-02
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Kaohsiung Vice Mayor Chen Chin-te will chair state-run oil company CPC Corporation, Taiwan, the government announced Friday.

The company has major operations in the southern industrial port city but wants to move a refinery out, for which Chen’s chairmanship could be helpful, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which oversees several state corporations, said Friday.

CPC also wants to remove a refinery from Taoyuan and build a third liquid natural gas terminal, reports said.

Chen, 55, is a chemical engineer from National Taiwan University, though he also had a varied political career as a National Assembly member and legislator for the Democratic Progressive Party.     [FULL  STORY]