page_title: Lien Chan
section_title: APEC Representative
hierarchical_section_title: Lien Chan / APEC Representative
caption_attribution_description: English: PERU, LIMA. With Chinese Taipei’s (Taiwan) ruling Kuomintang party Honourary Chairman Lien Chan at the meeting of the heads of state and government of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).Русский: ПЕРУ, ЛИМА. Заседание глав государств и правительств стран – участниц форума «Азиатско-тихоокеанское экономическое сотрудничество». С почётным президентом правящей партии «Гоминьдан» Китайского Тайбэя (Тайвань) Лянь Чжанем.
context_page_description: Lien Chan is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 1990 to 1993, Premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, Vice President of the Republic of China from 1996 to 2000, and was the Chairman of the Kuomintang from 2000 to 2005, apart from various ministerial posts he had also held. Lien ran for the President of the Republic of China on behalf of the Kuomintang twice in 2000 and 2004, but both lost to Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party. Upon his retirement as KMT Chairman in August 2005, he was given the title Honorary Chairman of the Kuomintang. He is highly credited after holding a groundbreaking visit to Mainland China in his capacity as the Chairman of the Kuomintang to meet with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Hu Jintao on 29 April 2005, the first meeting between the two party leaders after the end of Chinese Civil War in 1949, which subsequently helped thaw the long-stalled cross-strait relations.
context_section_description: Lien was selected by President Ma Ying-jeou as special envoy  to represent the Republic of China (participating as Chinese Taipei) at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in 2008–2012.
  While at APEC, Lien also met with PRC leader Hu Jintao, the highest level of official exchange between the Mainland and Taiwan on the international stage at that time.
caption: Lien Chan at the 2008 APEC Summit in Peru with Dmitry Medvedev.
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