Wu Rong-i

Wu Rong-i
Wu Rong-i
吳榮義
	Wu in 2014
Senior Advisor to the President
	In office; 9 November 2016 – 20 May 2024
President	Tsai Ing-wen
	In office; 26 January 2006 – July 2006
President	Chen Shui-bian
21st Vice Premier of the Republic of China
	In office; 1 February 2005 – 25 January 2006
Premier	Frank Hsieh
Preceded by	Yeh Chu-lan
Succeeded by	Tsai Ing-wen
National Policy Advisor to the President
	In office; 20 May 2001 – 1 February 2005
President	Chen Shui-bian
Personal details
Born	15 December 1939 (age 86); Yanchao, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Party	Independent
Children	Wu Chih-chung
Education	National Taiwan University (BA, MA); KU Leuven (MSc, PhD)

Wu Rong-i (Chinese: 吳榮義; pinyin: Wú Róngyì; born 15 December 1939) is a Taiwanese economist and politician who served as the vice premier of the Republic of China from 2005 to 2006.^[1] He also served as Chairman of Taiwania Capital, the investment arm of Taiwan.

Education

Wu graduated from National Taiwan University with a B.A. in economics in 1962 and an M.A. in economics in 1965. He then completed doctoral studies in Belgium, earning an M.Sc. in 1968 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1971, both from KU Leuven.

Work

Official portrait as Deputy Prime Minister of Taiwan, 2005

From 1992 to 1993, Wu served as Commissioner and Member of the Fair Trade Commission. He became Director and President of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research from 1993 until 2005, and from 2005 onwards he was Deputy Prime Minister (Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan) of Taiwan. From 2001 to 2005, Wu was President and Chairman of Taiwan Stock Exchange. He has also served as Chairman of Taiwan Brain Trust and Taiwan Futures Exchange, and as Advisor to the Taiwan delegation to the APEC Ministerial and Leaders' Meetings.^{[citation needed]}

Cross-strait relations

In October 2005, Wu said that Chinese unification is highly unlikely to happen during his lifetime unless Beijing uses force. However, he considers mainland China a big brother, and wishes to take the opportunity for Taiwanese to invest in the mainland and have peaceful relations with them.^[2]

In early October 2013 during the cross-strait peace forum in Shanghai in which attended by officials from the Chinese Communist Party, Pan-Blue Coalition and Pan-Green Coalition, Wu proposed the idea that Taiwan and mainland China represent an "allegiance of brotherhood".^[3]