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Zheng Shanjie was born November 1961 in Zhangzhou, Fujian. After graduating from Nanjing Tech University in 1982, he was dispatched to a factory, where he worked over a period of 15 years to the position of factory manager. He joined the Communist Party of China in June 1985.
In May 1997, he was transferred to Xiamen and appointed district head of Huli District. In February 2002, he served as deputy secretary-general of Xiamen Municipal People s Government and director of General Office of Xiamen Municipal People s Government. In March 2003, he became director and party branch secretary of Xiamen Development Planning Commission. In April 2008, he left for Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, where he was appointed deputy director of Fujian Development and Reform Commission. He rose to become director in May 2010.
No need to skimp on virus tests
By Chin Ching 秦靖
When reporters at a recent news conference asked Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) why Taiwan’s nucleic acid test for diagnosing COVID-19 is 19 times more expensive than China’s version, he said: “The reason is that our test is more accurate.”
Beijing was not going to let such an “impudent” remark go unpunished and China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian (朱鳳蓮) duly took the matter up in the following TAO news conference, pointedly referring to Taiwan’s minister of health and welfare as simply “that man.”
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The stark warning comes as China has increased tensions with Taiwan by stepping up military activities and declaring that independence means war last week.
Taiwan has been claimed by China as one of its territories, with Beijing having deployed fighter jets and bombers into the island s airspace as recently as the weekend.
China believes Taiwan s democratically-elected government is moving the island towards a formal declaration of independence, but Taiwan s president Tsai Ing-wen has repeatedly said that the island is already an independent nation.
Despite this, China has ramped up military drills near the island in recent weeks, including deploying 15 fighter jets into Taiwan airspace twice in two days last month.
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