On June 15, 2005 (May 9, 2005 in the lunar calendar), Gao Yushu, former Minister of the Ministry of Transportation of Taiwan, passed away. Picture: Gao Yushu Gao Yushu (September 3, 1913-June 15, 2005), the word Zong Shi. A native of Taipei City, Taiwan Province, his ancestral home is Anxi, Fujian. He served as elected mayor of Taipei City (a provincial city) and the first mayor after Taipei City was upgraded to a municipality directly under the Central Government, Minister of Transportation, and Senior Minister of the Presidential Office. Graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan in 1937. Later, he worked as an engineer in Japan. In 1947, he returned to Taiwan to do business. He served as director general of the Taipei City Chamber of Commerce. After 1953, he served as technical consultant of the 44th Arsenal of the Taiwan Army Joint Logistics Service. In 1960, he participated in the preparation of the China Democratic Party. In 1960, he formed the China Democratic Party with Li Wanju and Lei Zhen, and was charged with embezzlement around the time of the Lei case. In 1954, he was elected and re-elected mayor of Taipei City as a non-party member (two terms were elected during the provincial city period and one term was appointed by officials after being upgraded to a "municipality directly under the Central Government"). On May 29, 1968, Gao Yushu completed a "ghost marriage" for his eldest son Gao Chengqi, who committed suicide, and Wu Chunchun, Miss Wu of the Wu family. This is a famous "ghost marriage" case in Taiwan. During the martial law period when politics was highly regulated at that time, Gao Yushu became a member of the "cabinet" as a non-Kuomintang native and was considered an important non-party political figure in Taiwan. When Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian were in power, they both hired them as "Presidential Counselors". On March 11, 2005, he was sent to the emergency department of National Taiwan University Hospital due to sudden coma. He was found to have cerebral stroke and other diseases and was transferred to the intensive care unit for emergency treatment. His condition stabilized slightly and then he was transferred to the general ward. At around 5 o'clock in the evening of June 15 of the same year, he died of systemic vascular sclerosis, large intestine bleeding, and multiple organ failure at Taipei City Taiwan University Hospital. He lived 92 years old.