CCTV9英语新闻：洪秀柱就职中国国民党主席

CCTV9英语新闻：洪秀柱就职中国国民党主席

Hung Hsiu-chu assumes leadership of KMT

TAIPEI, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Hung Hsiu-chu, Taiwan's former deputy legislative speaker, took office as chair of the Kuomintang (KMT) on Wednesday and underscored cross-Strait peace in her inaugural speech.

TAIPEI, March 30, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Hung Hsiu-chu, Taiwan's former deputy legislative speaker, delivers her inaugural speech as chair of the Kuomintang (KMT) in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, March 30, 2016. Hung Hsiu-chu, the party's first female leader, took office here Wednesday. (Xinhua/Zhang Guojun)

Hung said that she is fully aware of the problems that the KMT is struggling with, such as the party's core ideology and overall development strategy, which ultimately resulted in the party losing in the island's recent leadership election.

The KMT will continue to champion cross-Strait peace, the values of democracy, rule of law, honesty and justice, while fulfilling its obligations as a supervisor and counterbalance as an opposition party, according to Hung.

A by-election for the party's chair was held on March 26 after Eric Chu resigned when the party's lost the leadership election to Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party on Jan. 16.

Hung garnered 78,829 votes, or 56.16 percent of the total, to beat the other three candidates and become the party's first female leader.