The southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung is securing its status as a world leader in yacht manufacturing.

It has been the third anniversary of Taichung International Animation Festival. It will be held at Taichung ShowTimes (Taichung Rail Station) from October 13 to October 17. There will be 143 animation films coming from 35 countries or areas to be released in 40 shows.

The 21st World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2017) is being held at the World Trade Center Hall 1 between September 10 and 13. Adopting the theme of “Innovative Taipei of Asia,” the Taipei Booth will spotlight achievements in the fields of Smart Housing, Smart Transportation, Smart Medical Service, Smart Education, Financial Technology (EasyCard), and Shezidao Smart Construction, among others.

In order to promote the 2018 International Taichung Flora Exhibition, the city government’s Tourism Bureau held a promotional event on the 23nd in Seoul, specifically inviting re-known chef A-Ching to put on the “2018 International Taichung Flora Expo Cuisine Show”, utilizing local fruits and elements from flowers to present artistic soups, desserts and ice.

The “Taiwan’s Heroes’ Parade” – spotlighting 2017 Summer Universiade medalists from the island – took place in the afternoon of August 31. Upon their arrival at Civic Plaza in front of City Hall at 5:30 PM, the athletes received a warm welcome by Mayor Ko Wen-je amidst rapturous applause from the audience.

Dr. Juli Minoves, the classmate of Lin Chia-lung, the Mayor of Taichung City in the Ph.D. program at Yale, is currently the president of Liberal International. He arrived in Taichung earlier to visit Mayor Lin. In addition to the reunion with an old friend, they also discussed widely on the plan of constructing Taichung into an international non-governmental organization (INGO) center.

Taichung City will hold the 2018 International Taichung Flora Exposition, The City Tourism Bureau and the National Tourism Quality Assurance Association held two promotional events in Taipei and Kaohsiung, to introduce central Taiwan tourism products and to seek cooperation. Furthermore, the tourism bureau also hopes to sign a MOU between central Taiwan and southern Taiwan tourism alliance, to promote a “enter south, exit central and also enter central, exit south” model.

Ticket sales are surging for the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade as the countdown for largest global sporting event ever staged in Taiwan reaches T minus four days.

 “Taipei in Motion,” a short film promoting the Aug. 19-30 Summer Universiade, the largest international sporting event ever staged in Taiwan, was named a winner of the Red Dot Award for communication design Aug. 10.

Mayor Wen-Je Ko stated that the Universiade gathered all broadcasting resources from all major broadcasting companies in Taiwan, including 14 Outside Broadcasting Trucks, 6 Sub-Control Systems and more than 5,000 production personnel to complete the largest task in the broadcasting history of Taiwan.