Political Life
Later on, Huang also participated in politics. He was admired by Lee Teng-hui, who was helpful throughout Huang's political career. At 1979, Lee was the Mayor of Taipei and appointed him as the Advidor of Mayor and the Executive Secretary of Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan. Two years later, Lee became the chief executive of Taiwan Province, he followed Lee to Taiwan Province Government and was appointed the Deputy Secretary-General. He went back to National Taiwan University in 1984 as a professor, before he was appointed the Secretary-General of Taipei City Government in 1987. He became the acting Mayor of Taipei in May, 1990, to replace Wu Poh-hsiung. He then became the official Mayor of Taipei in October, following the nomination of by Lee, the President of Taiwan at that time.
He was the Mayor of Taipei from 1990 to 1994. During that time, under the pressure of democratization, a political form was carried out and the Mayor of Taipei became directly elected, instead of appointed by the President, in 1994. Huang is the last appointed Mayor of Taipei.
In the 1994 Taipei mayoral election, Kuomintang at first was indecisive to determine their representative. Lastly, Huang received the nomination from his party under the support of President Lee Teng-hui. Despite Kuomintang's nomination, it is not engouh for Huang to win the election. His failure could partly ascribed to the split between the Kuomintang and Chinese New Party within the Pan-Blue Coalition in the election. Although the entire Pan-Blue Coalition attained more vote, Huang only received 25.89% of the turnout, allowing Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian to be elected in a traditional pro-Chinese reunification city and Mainlander stronghold.
After the failure in the mayoral election, Huang was appointed the Minister of Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, in June 1996, and the Minister without Portfolio of Executive Yuan in 1997.
He was appointed National Policy Advisor by President Ma Ying-jeou in 2009.
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