Lai Feng-wei


Lai Feng-wei is a Taiwanese politician and engineer. He was the Magistrate of Penghu County since 25 December 2018 after winning the 2018 municipality elections, ending his term after losing to former magistrate Chen Kuang-fu.
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Education

After graduating from Tunghai University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, Lai completed advanced studies in the United States at the University of Missouri, where he earned a master's degree and his Ph.D. in industrial management engineering in 1995. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Technology alliances of organizations: a resonance theory perspective".

Political careers

2019 Mainland China visit

On 12 August 2019, Lai, along with Lienchiang County Magistrate Liu Cheng-ying and Kinmen County Magistrate Yang Cheng-wu, visited Beijing and met with Taiwan Affairs Office Director Liu Jieyi requesting Mainland China government to lift up individual travel ban of Mainland Chinese tourists to the three counties due to the constraint cross-strait relations. The mainland government eventually agreed to lift up the ban on 20 September 2019.