Jaw Shaw-kong
Taiwanese media personality and politician
Jaw Shaw-kong (Chinese: 趙少康; pinyin: Zhào Shàokāng; born 6 May 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, media personality and entrepreneur.
Jaw served a single term on the Taipei City Council before being elected to the Legislative Yuan from 1987 to 1991 and 1993 to 1994. In 1993, he co-founded the pro-unification New Party, which he briefly led until 1994. Between Legislative Yuan stints, Jaw led the Environmental Protection Administration. He was the vice presidential candidate of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the 2024 Taiwanese presidential election.
Early life and education
Jaw was born on 6 May 1950 in Keelung and grew up in Luodong, Yilan County. His ancestral home is in Hebei, China, where his father, Jaw Yan-min, was born in 1922, and served in the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army and recruited in the Whampoa Military Academy when he was 16. He fought for the NRA in the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War before the KMT retreated to Taiwan in 1949.
Jaw was initially educated at National Tainan First Senior High School but transferred and graduated from Taichung Municipal Taichung First Senior High School. He began studying hydrology and agricultural engineering as an undergraduate at National Taiwan University but transferred to study at its mechanical engineering department, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in 1972.
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