Exclusive: Bo Guagua, Son of Bo Xilai, Becomes Taiwan's Son-in-Law After Finding Love with Woman from Prominent Yilan Family
(translated from UDN)
Bo Guagua, son of former Chinese Communist Party Politburo member and Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai - who was once a major rival to current CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping in the lead-up to the 18th Party Congress - quietly arrived in Taiwan on Wednesday (13th). His main purpose is to marry a woman from Yilan, making this prominent "third-generation red" figure a Taiwanese son-in-law.
Bo Guagua's fiancée is reportedly from the third generation of the Luodong Po-Ai Hospital family. He is expected to meet her parents today. Given the Bo family's special status in mainland China, when reporters sought confirmation from the Hsu family, they declined to comment. According to sources, Bo Guagua visited Yilan today to meet his fiancée's parents and underwent a health check at Luodong Po-Ai Hospital, staying briefly for several hours before departing. Police officers were seen monitoring the situation outside the hospital in the morning.
In fact, as early as September this year, our paper learned of Bo Guagua's plans to marry a Taiwanese woman. Yesterday, multiple sources confirmed that Bo arrived in Taiwan from Canada on the 13th and would head to Yilan for the wedding preparations, with one stop being a health check in Luodong.
When our paper sought verification from two high-ranking officials (one former, one current) in the national security system, while neither confirmed nor denied the rumors, they simply stated they would not comment on the matter.
Bo Xilai, while serving as Chongqing Party Secretary, was once a powerful rival to current CCP General Secretary and President Xi Jinping. However, due to the Wang Lijun incident, he was successively stripped of his positions as Party Secretary, Central Committee member, and Politburo member, expelled from the Party, and prosecuted. He is currently serving his sentence at Beijing's Qincheng Prison.
According to sources, Bo Guagua's fiancée is from a prominent family in Luodong Township, Yilan County - she is a third-generation daughter of the Hsu family, who runs the Luodong Po-Ai Hospital and Lo-Hsu Foundation. Bo Guagua was sent to study in the UK at age 11, graduated with honors from Oxford University in 2010, then went on to Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government for a master's degree in public policy, which he obtained in May 2012.
The Hsu family daughter also studied and worked abroad. She is close in age to Bo Guagua, who was born in 1987. The two met several years ago, developed mutual feelings, and began dating before committing to marriage. Both parties have kept the marriage very low-key.
Sources indicate the Hsu family does not plan to hold wedding celebrations in Yilan. However, this marriage is still expected to draw significant public attention.
