Chen Yun-lin

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.

Chen Yun-lin 陈云林
President of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
Incumbent
Assumed office  3 June 2008
Preceded by	Wang Daohan
Born	December 1941 Heishan, Liaoning, China
Political party	Communist Party

Chen Yun-lin (simplified Chinese: 陈云林; traditional Chinese: 陳雲林; pinyin: Chén Yúnlín; born December 1941) is the current chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), the body responsible for negotiations with Taiwan in the People's Republic of China.

Biography

Chen was born in 1941 in Heishan, Liaoning. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1966. A chemist by training, Chen served in various roles in the government of Heilongjiang province, becoming deputy governor in 1987. In 1994, he was appointed to the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, becoming its head in 1997. In 2008, due to the resumption of talks with Taiwan following the election of Ma Ying-jeou to President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), Chen Yun-lin became the second head of ARATS.

Though nominally a private body, ARATS is directly led by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. Chen's new office at ARATS is in the same building complex as his old office at the Taiwan Affairs Office. The ARATS is the body directly responsible for negotiating with the Strait Exchange Foundation (SEF), its counterpart in Taiwan, which is correspondingly directly led by the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China.

Visit to Taiwan

On November 4, 2008, Chen met with his Taiwanese counterpart at the Second Chen-Chiang summit. Chiang Pin-kung, head of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF). It was the first ever meeting between the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) leaders in Taiwan.^[1] The meeting lasted from November 3 to 7 in Taipei Taiwan.^[2] The 5-day visit was the highest level meeting between the KMT and CPC in six decades.^[3] Another visit to Taiwan soil was followed in December 21, 2009.

References

Internet video

• Documentary on the visit of communist official Chen Yun-lin when Taiwan police pulled down Blue Sky White Sun Flag
• (Chinese)破黑箱．顧飯碗 綠號召十萬人上街 12/15/2009 民視新聞
• (Chinese)民進黨邀台聯1220遊行 估逾10萬人

External links

• Free searchable biography of Chen Yun-lin at China Vitae

Additional source

• (Chinese)陳雲林：相信台方能保護代表團的安全和尊嚴
• (Chinese)陳雲林訪台 民進黨大遊行星島日報報道
• (Chinese)假飛彈、沖天炮 瞄準陳雲林 The Liberty Times