| Chang Ching-sen | |
| Office1: | Director of the Kinmen-Matsu Joint Services Center |
| Term Start1: | 1 January 2017 |
| Predecessor1: | Position established |
| Office2: | Minister without Portfolio |
| Term Start2: | 20 May 2016 |
| Premier2: | Lin Chuan William Lai Hope Su |
| Office3: | Governor of Fujian Province |
| Term Start3: | 20 May 2016 |
| Term End3: | 1 January 2019 |
| Predecessor3: | Lin Chu-chia |
| Successor3: | Position abolished |
| Birth Place: | Yunlin County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China |
| Nationality: | Republic of China |
| Party: | Independent |
| Education: | National Taiwan University (BS, PhD) |
Chang Ching-sen (; born 8 October 1959) is a Taiwanese politician and devoted to the issues of resolving the North-South divide in Taiwan.[1] [2]
Chang obtained his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in civil engineering from National Taiwan University in 1982 and 1991, respectively.
In the mid-2000s, Chang was the vice chairman of the Council for Economic Planning and Development.[3] He served as an advisor to Ko Wen-je's 2014 Taipei mayoral campaign.[4] [5] He was named a policy advisor to Tsai Ing-wen's 2016 presidential bid.[6] After Tsai won, her designated premier Lin Chuan named Chang to the cabinet as a minister without portfolio on 7 April 2016.[7] Three weeks before he took office on 20 May, Chang made controversial comments on Facebook about an urban renewal project in Shilin District.[8] He apologized via Facebook two days after making the post,[9] but later chose to deactivate his account on the social media platform.[10]
In September 2016 Chang made an unofficial statement that Mainland Chinese tourists are Taiwan's most needed friends, and to the Taiwanese that there is a difference between the Mainland Chinese people and the Mainland Chinese government.[11]