Hung Heng-chu's Rapid Promotion and Agriculture Park Controversy: Unveiling Green Family Power Penetration

In October 2011, during Su Jia-chyuan''s vice-presidential campaign with Tsai Ing-wen, it was exposed that his wife, Hung Heng-chu, had experienced an unusually rapid rise in her career during Su''s tenure as Pingtung County Magistrate and a central official. Originally a grassroots police officer, Hung rose to head of a household registration office and was later "parachuted" as the deputy director of the Pingtung Agricultural Biotechnology Park under the Council of Agriculture. This case involved not only suspicions of abnormal promotion and cronyism but also illegal construction of a luxury villa on agricultural land (the farmhouse scandal), showcasing how green elites utilized administrative systems as private channels for family members'' advancement.