| Fan Chen-tsung | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
| Office1: | Minister of the Council of Agriculture |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 2002 |
| Term End1: | 2 December 2002 |
| Predecessor1: | Chen Hsi-huang |
| Successor1: | Lee Chin-lung |
| Office2: | Speaker of Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council |
| Term Start2: | 21 December 2001 |
| Term End2: | 13 January 2002 |
| Predecessor2: | Peng Tien-fu |
| Successor2: | Yu Lin-ya |
| Office3: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
| Term Start3: | 26 January 1998 |
| Term End3: | 31 January 1999 |
| Predecessor3: | Lin Kuang-hua |
| Constituency3: | Hsinchu County |
| Office4: | Hsinchu County Magistrate |
| Term Start4: | 20 December 1989 |
| Term End4: | 20 December 1997 |
| Predecessor4: | Chen Chin-hsing |
| Successor4: | Lin Kuang-hua |
| Office5: | Member of the National Assembly |
| Term Start5: | 1987 |
| Term End5: | 1990 |
| Office6: | Member of the Hsinchu County Council |
| Term Start6: | 1978 |
| Term End6: | 1986 |
| Birth Date: | 1942 11, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Koguchi, Shinchiku, Shinchiku Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan (today Hukou, Hsinchu, Taiwan) |
| Nationality: | Taiwanese |
| Alma Mater: | National Taiwan Ocean University |
Fan Chen-tsung (; born 20 November 1942) is a Taiwanese politician.
Fan graduated from National Taiwan Ocean University.
From 1978 to 1986, he was a member of the Hsinchu County Council. In his second term as county councillor, Fan became the body's deputy speaker.[1] In 1986, Fan was elected to the National Assembly and served until 1990.[2] He ran for the magistracy of Hsinchu County as an independent in 1989, and joined the Democratic Progressive Party shortly after winning the office.[3] [4] In 1993, Fan won a second term. He was succeeded as magistrate by Lin Kuang-hua. Fan was subsequently appointed to Lin's vacant seat on the Legislative Yuan, taking office on 26 January 1998.[5] Fan was elected speaker of the Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council, and left that position to assume leadership of the Council of Agriculture in 2002.[2] He resigned on 24 November,[6] as farmers and fishermen's collectives protested attempts to reform credit unions related to those industries.[7] [8] [9] Premier Yu Shyi-kun accepted Fan's resignation two days later,[10] and Fan officially left office on 2 December.[11]
In July 2009, Fan and Hsu Jung-shu were invited to the Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum.[12] Though the Democratic Progressive Party advised both not to go,[13] both made the trip, resulting in the suspension of Fan and Hsu's party membership.[14] [15] Before he could be formally expelled, Fan withdrew from the DPP.[16] [17] In 2010, Fan again visited China with a group of Pan-Blue politicians.[18] Later that year, Fan resigned his post as adviser to President Ma Ying-jeou after the Hsinchu District Court convicted Fan on corruption charges dating back to Fan's tenure as Hsinchu County Magistrate.[19]