sentences:  He is a member of the Kuomintang (KMT), and has been the Vice Chairman of the party since April 2014.Hu was born in Beijing (then known as Peiping) in Mainland China on 15 May 1948, and was a war refugee to Taiwan as a young child when the Chinese Nationalists lost their civil war with the Communists in 1949.Hu attended, then known as Big Tiger.