{{Short description|Politician from Taiwan (born 1975)}} {{family name hatnote|Lin|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Lin Chih-chien | native_name = {{nobold|林智堅}} | image = 林新竹市市長智堅 (第九屆).jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Official portrait, 2014 | order1 = 7th | office1 = Mayor of Hsinchu | deputy1 = Shen Hui-hong | term_start1 = 25 December 2014 | term_end1 = 8 July 2022 | predecessor1 = Hsu Ming-tsai | successor1 = Chen Chang-hsien {{small|(acting)}}<br>Ann Kao | office2 = Hsinchu City Councillor | term_start2 = 1 March 2010 | term_end2 = 25 December 2014 | constituency2 = Hsinchi I | birth_date = {{birth date and age text|27 May 1975}} | birth_place = Xiangshan, Hsinchu County, Taiwan | party = Democratic Progressive Party | spouse = | children = | education = Chung Hua University (BA)<small> (master's degree rescinded due to plagiarism)</small><br>National Taiwan University <small>(rescinded due to plagiarism)</small> | signature = }}
'''Lin Chih-chien'''<ref>{{cite web |date=August 31, 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/asia/taiwan-girl-kite.html |title=Girl in Taiwan Is Swept High by a Kite |author=Tiffany May |website=New York Times |quote=The girl, who was identified by news outlets only by her last name, Lin, landed mostly unscathed at the Hsinchu International Kite Festival. She suffered abrasions around her neck and face, the mayor of Hsinchu, Lin Chih-chien, wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. She was admitted to a hospital for a medical examination, he said.}}</ref> ({{lang-zh|c=林智堅|w=Lin2 Chih4-chien1<!--DO NOT REMOVE This information helps the reader understand the title of the article.-->|p=Lín Zhìjiān}}; born 27 May 1975) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the mayor of Hsinchu City from 25 December 2014 to 8 July 2022.
==Early life and education== Lin earned his bachelor's degree in business administration followed by a master's degree in technology management from Chung Hua University's College of Management in 2008.<ref name="plagiarismclaims"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.hccg.gov.tw/web/SG?pageID=25445|title=Hsinchu City Government|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429191830/http://en.hccg.gov.tw/web/SG?pageID=25445|archivedate=2014-04-29}}</ref> In 2017, Lin obtained a second master's degree from National Taiwan University's Graduate Institute of National Development, where his thesis discussed the 2014 Hsinchu mayoral elections.<ref name="plagupdate"/> Both master's degrees were rescinded by the respective institutions after investigations confirmed that Lin had plagiarized his theses for the two degrees.<ref name="revoked"/><ref name="plagiarismclaims"/><ref name="cnachueng"/>
== Political career == In 2014, Lin represented Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as a candidate for the Hsinchu City mayoralty election. He was elected as the Mayor of Hsinchu City after narrowly defeating Kuomintang's (KMT) candidate Hsu Ming-tsai with a 1,014 vote majority on 29 November .<ref>{{cite news |date=29 November 2014 |title=DPP's Lin Chih-chien claims win in Hsinchu mayoral election |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/201411290038 |agency=Central News Agency}}</ref>
Lin was re-elected in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |date=24 November 2018 |title=DPP's Lin Chih-chien wins reelection in Hsinchu City |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/201811240030 |access-date=28 December 2022 |agency=Central News Agency}}</ref>
In December 2021, Lin proposed consolidating Hsinchu City and County to form a special municipality. As he was term limited (maximum of two terms for the same position) for the Hsinchu City mayoralty, he stated that he would not contest the mayoralty for this proposed entity during the 2022 local elections.<ref>{{cite news |title=DPP's Lin pledges not to run for mayor of merged Hsinchu municipality |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202112270023 |access-date=6 July 2022 |agency=Central News Agency |date=27 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Tsai |first1=Chang-cheng |last2=Hsieh |first2=Chun-lin |last3=Chin |first3=Jonathan |title=Lin not to run for mayor of proposed municipality |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/12/29/2003770383 |access-date=9 August 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=29 December 2021}}</ref>
In June 2022, Lin accepted the DPP nomination for the Taoyuan mayoralty.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wen |first1=Kuei-hsiang |last2=Lu |first2=Kang-chun |last3=Huang |first3=Frances |title=DPP picks Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien to run for Taoyuan seat |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202206180019 |access-date=6 July 2022 |date=18 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Yeh |first1=Su-ping |last2=Liu |first2=Kuang-ting |last3=Joseph |first3=Yeh |title=DPP, KMT name more candidates for Nov. 26 local elections |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202206220021 |access-date=6 July 2022 |agency=Central News Agency |date=22 June 2022}}</ref> On 12 August, Lin withdrew his nomination for the Taoyuan mayoralty after his master thesis was revoked by National Taiwan University.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shih |first1=Hsiu-chuan |date=12 August 2022 |title=DPP's Taoyuan mayoral candidate pulls out over thesis plagiarism |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202208120009 |access-date=12 August 2022 |agency=Central News Agency}}</ref>
== Electoral results ==
{| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="6" |2014 Hsinchu City Mayoralty Election Result |- ! width="35" |No. ! width="180" | Candidate ! width="120" | Party ! width="75" | Votes ! width="75" | Percentage ! width="49" | Result |- |1||Liu Cheng-hsing (劉正幸)||Independent|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" |1,914 | align="right" |0.96% | align="center" | |- |2||Hsu Ming-tsai||Kuomintang|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #000099;" |75,564 | align="right" |37.85% | align="center" | |- |3||James Tsai||Independent|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" |40,480 | align="right" |20.28% | align="center" | |- |4||'''Lin Chih-chien'''||Democratic Progressive Party|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #1B9431;" |76,578 | align="right" |38.36% | align="center" |<div align="center">20px</div> |- |5||Wu Shu-min (吳淑敏)||Independent|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" |5101 | align="right" |2.56% | align="center" | |}
{| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="6" |2018 Hsinchu City Mayoralty Election Result<ref>{{Cite web |title=2018 Local Elections |url=https://www.cec.gov.tw/pc/en/TC/nm10018000000000000.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124220200/https://www.cec.gov.tw/pc/en/TC/nm10018000000000000.html |archive-date=2018-11-24 |access-date=2018-11-25}}</ref> |- ! width="35" | No. ! width="150" | Candidate ! width="120" | Party ! width="75" | Votes ! width="75" | Percentage ! width="49" | Result |- | 1 ||Hsieh Wen-chin (謝文進)||Independent || align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" |44,101 | align="right" |20.31% | align="center" | |- | 2 ||Li Chi-qun (李驥羣)||Independent|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" |705 | align="right" |0.32% | align="center" | |- | 3 ||Huang Yuan-fu (黃源甫)||Independent|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" |3,603 | align="right" |1.66% | align="center" | |- | 4 ||Hsu Ming-tsai||Kuomintang|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #000099;" |60,508 | align="right" |27.87% | align="center" | |- | 5 ||Kuo Jung-jui (郭榮睿)||Independent|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #000000;" |574 | align="right" |0.26% | align="center" | |- | 6 ||'''Lin Chih-chien'''|| Democratic Progressive Party|| align="right" style="border-left:4px solid #1B9413;" |107,612 | align="right" |49.57% | align="center" |20px |- bgcolor="EEEEEE" | colspan="3" align="right" | '''Total voters''' || colspan="3" align="left" | 338,323 |- bgcolor="EEEEEE" | colspan="3" align="right" | '''Valid votes''' || colspan="3" align="left" | 217,103 |- bgcolor="EEEEEE" | colspan="3" align="right" | '''Invalid votes''' || colspan="3" align="left" | |- bgcolor="EEEEEE" | colspan="3" align="right" | '''Voter turnout''' || colspan="3" align="left" | 64.17% |}
== Incident == The following month, Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei claimed that Lin had plagiarized a research paper cowritten by Lee Yu-cheng and Wang Ming-lang while completing his master's degree at Chung Hua University's College of Management. Lin's adviser Ho Li-hsing and researcher Wang Ming-lang both signed written statements that asserted Lin had been on Wang Ming-lang's research team. Lin's second master's degree, obtained at National Taiwan University's Graduate Institute of National Development, was called into question by political commentator Huang Yang-ming. Huang suggested that Lin had plagiarized from Yu Cheng-huang, while Lin and Chen Ming-tong, Lin's adviser at NTU, stated that Yu had utilized research material collected by Lin.<ref name="plagiarismclaims">{{cite news |last1=Yu |first1=Matt |last2=Hsu |first2=Chih-wei |last3=Teng |first3=Pei-ju |title=Hsinchu mayor to sue KMT city councilor over plagiarism claims |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202207050029 |access-date=6 July 2022 |date=5 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cheng |first1=Ming-hsuan |last2=Tsai |first2=Chang-cheng |last3=Chin |first3=Jonathan |title=Accusations of plagiarism by mayor spark a fracas |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/07/06/2003781239 |access-date=9 August 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=6 July 2022}}</ref>
National Taiwan University began {{ill|Lin Chih-chien plagiarism scandal|lt=an investigation|zh|李眉蓁論文門}} into the allegations. The committee found that Lin plagiarized from Yu, and advised that Lin's master's degree be revoked <ref>{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=Chih-chung |last2=Huang |first2=Frances |title=NTU committee determines ex-Hsinchu mayor plagiarized thesis |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202208090006 |access-date=9 August 2022 |agency=Central News Agency |date=9 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="plagupdate">{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=Chih-chung |last2=Wang |first2=Cheng-chung |last3=Wu |first3=Jui-chih |last4=Huang |first4=Frances |title=NTU committee determines ex-Hsinchu mayor plagiarized thesis (update) |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202208090014 |access-date=9 August 2022 |agency=Central News Agency |date=9 August 2022}}</ref> National Taiwan University revoked his master's degree on 9 August.<ref name="revoked">{{cite news |last1=Yeh |first1=Su-ping |last2=Wang |first2=Cheng-chung |last3=Kuo |first3=Chien-shen |last4=Lin |first4=Sean |title=DPP defends Taoyuan mayoral candidate accused of plagiarism |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202208090029 |access-date=10 August 2022 |agency=Central News Agency |date=9 August 2022 |quote=The committee also recommended that the NTU Office of Academic Affairs revoke Lin's master's degree -- a request the office granted.}}</ref> After the conclusion of investigations, Chung Hua University also revoked his master's degree on 24 August 2022.<ref name="cnachueng">{{cite news |last1=Lu |first1=Kang-chun |last2=Lin |first2=Sean |title=Chung Hua University revokes ex-Hsinchu mayor's degree, diploma |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202208240017 |access-date=24 August 2022 |agency=Central News Agency |date=24 August 2022}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before = Hsu Ming-tsai}} {{s-ttl|title =Mayor of Hsinchu| years= 2014–2022}} {{s-aft|after = Chen Chang-hsien}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Chih-chien}} Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan) politicians Category:Mayors of Hsinchu Category:National Taiwan University alumni