Minister of Health and Welfare Xue Ruiyuan went to the CDC this morning (14th) to personally announce the latest personnel case.

(Photographed by reporter Qiu Zhirou)

[Reporter Qiu Zhirou/Taipei Report] After Shi Chongliang, the former executive deputy director, took over as the Director of Health Insurance on February 6, Xue Ruiyuan, Minister of Health and Welfare, went to the CDC this morning (14th) to personally announce the latest personnel case. He emphasized that this new personnel change is a "Seamlessly connected", the vacancy of executive deputy director was promoted by Zhou Zhihao, the former director of the CDC, and the director of the CDC was promoted by Zhuang Renxiang, the former deputy director of the CDC.

Zhou Zhihao specializes in disease control and public health. He started from the grassroots level of health administration and has nearly 40 years of experience in public health.

Xue Ruiyuan said that Zhou served as the deputy director of the CDC for about ten years. After the restructuring, it became the CDC and continued to serve as the deputy director. As the leader of the epidemic monitoring team, he has put a lot of effort into the overall control of the epidemic, and he has great confidence in him taking over as the deputy chief.

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Zhuang Renxiang is a public-funded student of the Yangming Medical Department. His expertise is in the fields of public health monitoring and clinical prediction models. He joined the Disease Control Bureau of the Department of Health, Executive Yuan in 2005 and is currently the deputy director of the Department of Disease Control.

Xue Ruiyuan said that Zhuang Renxiang was promoted from deputy director to director, and he was familiar with taking over the CDC and related epidemic prevention work. This personnel case can be said to be seamlessly integrated.

Xue Ruiyuan also mentioned that in the future, the epidemic prevention work and the related business of the National Health Administration will be supervised by Deputy Director Zhou Zhihao, and the health insurance related business will be supervised by Deputy Director Wang Bisheng. The business of other departments will also be adjusted.