Vice President of the Republic of China

The **vice president of the Republic of China**, commonly referred to as the **vice president of Taiwan**, is the second-highest constitutional office of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan.

## List

**Provisional Government:**

**Beiyang Government:**

**Constitutional Government:**

|№|Portrait|width=18%|Name|colspan=2|Term of office|Political party|colspan=2|President|Assembly (elected)||||
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|colspan=9|=== Vice presidents of the Provisional Government ===||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2 align=center|**Li Yuanhong** <span style="font-size:125%;">黎元洪</span> <small>(1864–1928)</small>|1 January 1912|10 October 1913|rowspan=2|Nonpartisan|bgcolor=""||Sun Yat-sen <small>(Tongmenghui)</small>|align="center"|Provisional (1911)|
|bgcolor="#CD853F"||Yuan Shikai <small>(Beiyang clique)</small>|align="center"|Provisional (1912)|||||||||
|colspan=9|=== Vice presidents of the Beiyang Government ===||||||||||||
||align=center|**Li Yuanhong** <span style="font-size:125%;">黎元洪</span> <small>(1864–1928)</small>|10 October 1913|6 June 1916|Progressive Party|bgcolor="#CD853F"||Yuan Shikai <small>(Beiyang clique)</small>|1st (1913)||||
||align=center|**Feng Guozhang** <span style="font-size:125%;">馮國璋</span> <small>(1859–1919)</small>|6 June 1916|17 July 1917|Beiyang clique|bgcolor="#008000"||Li Yuanhong <small>(Progressive Party)</small>|1st (1916)||||
|colspan=9|=== Vice presidents after the 1947 Constitution ===||||||||||||
||**Li Zongren**|20 May 1948|12 March 1954|Kuomintang|rowspan=7 bgcolor=""||rowspan=7|Chiang Kai-shek <small>(Kuomintang)</small>|rowspan=2|1 (1948)|||
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|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Chen Cheng**|20 May 1954|5 March 1965|rowspan=2|Kuomintang|2 (1954)|||||
|rowspan=2|3 (1960)||||||||||||
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|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Yen Chia-kan **|20 May 1966|5 April 1975|rowspan=2|Kuomintang|4 (1966)|||||
|rowspan=2|5 (1972)||||||||||||
|colspan=6|bgcolor=""||Yen Chia-kan <small>(Kuomintang)</small>||||||||||
||**Hsieh Tung-min**|20 May 1978|19 May 1984|Kuomintang|rowspan=2 bgcolor=""||rowspan=2|Chiang Ching-kuo <small>(Kuomintang)</small>|6 (1978)||||
||**Lee Teng-hui**|20 May 1984|13 January 1988|Kuomintang|rowspan=2|7 (1984)|||||||
|colspan=6|rowspan=2 bgcolor=""||rowspan=2|Lee Teng-hui <small>(Kuomintang)</small>|||||||||
||**Li Yuan-tsu**|20 May 1990|20 May 1996|Kuomintang|8 (1990)||||||||
|colspan=9|===Vice presidents after the introduction of direct election===||||||||||||
||**Lien Chan**|20 May 1996|20 May 2000|Kuomintang|bgcolor=""||Lee Teng-hui <small>(KMT)</small>|9 (1996)|||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Annette Lu **|20 May 2000|20 May 2008|rowspan=2|Democratic Progressive|rowspan=2 bgcolor=""||rowspan=2|Chen Shui-bian <small>(DPP)</small>|10 (2000)|
|11 (2004)|||||||||||||
||**Vincent Siew **|20 May 2008|20 May 2012|Kuomintang|rowspan=2 bgcolor=""||rowspan=2|Ma Ying-jeou <small>(KMT)</small>|12 (2008)||||
||**Wu Den-yih**|20 May 2012|20 May 2016|Kuomintang|13 (2012)||||||||
||**Chen Chien-jen**|20 May 2016|20 May 2020|Independent|rowspan=3 bgcolor=""||rowspan=2|Tsai Ing-wen <small>(DPP)</small>|14 (2016)||||
||**William Lai **|20 May 2020|20 May 2024|Democratic Progressive|15 (2020)||||||||
||**Hsiao Bi-khim**|20 May 2024|_Incumbent_|Democratic Progressive|William Lai <small>(DPP)</small>|16 (2024)|||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Vice President
- **body**: the Republic of China (Taiwan)
- **insignia**: National_Emblem_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg
- **insigniasize**: 100px
- **insigniacaption**: Blue Sky with a White Sun, National Emblem of Taiwan
- **image**: 蕭美琴副總統_1.jpg
- **imagesize**: 220px
- **incumbent**: Hsiao Bi-khim
- **incumbentsince**: 20 May 2024
- **department**: Office of the President (Taiwan), Office of the President
- **style**: Mrs Vice President (informal)
Her Excellency (diplomatic)
- **member of**: National Security Council (Taiwan), National Security Council
- **residence**: Official Residence of the President (Republic of China), Wanli Residence
- **seat**: Presidential Office Building (Republic of China), Presidential Office, Taipei
- **appointer**: Direct election
- **termlength**: 4 years; renewable once
- **first**: Li Zongren
- **unofficial names**: Vice President of Taiwan
Deputy Leader of the Taiwan Area (by the PRC)
- **salary**: TWD, NT$4,080,000 annually