Ma Ying-jeou wins 4th Taiwan presidential vote

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"People want a clean a government instead of a corrupt one," said Ma, also a former justice minister. "They want a good economy, not a sluggish one. They don't want political feuding. They want peace across the Taiwan Strait. No war."

Ma promises to expand economic ties with China while protecting the island from being swallowed up politically by its giant communist neighbor.

Resume of Ma

Ma Ying-jeou was born in Hong Kong in July 1950 to parents from Hunan Province on the Chinese mainland.He was graduated from the Department of Law in Taiwan University, and then got a master's degree of law in New York University and a doctor's degree of law in Harvard.

He used to be the English interpreter for Chiang Ching-kuo, the late KMT leader.

Ma was vice secretary-general of the KMT Central Committee between 1984 and 1988, and assumed a number of administrative posts.

He was elected Taipei Mayor in December 1998 and re-elected in 2002.

In March 2003, Ma was elected vice chairman of the KMT.

In a direct election on July 16, 2005, Ma defeated Wang Jyn-pyng, also vice-chairman of the KMT, by winning 72.36 percent of the votes, to take over from Lien Chan as the new KMT chairman.