After six years of planning and preparation, the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade Athletes’ Village located at Linkou, officially opened one week before the opening ceremony this afternoon at 3pm. Taipei City Mayor Wen-Je Ko, FISU President Oleg Matytsin, Executive Yuan Minister without Portfolio Jin-sen Chang, Taipei Universiade CEO Lee-Chong Su and Mayor of the Athletes’ Village were all present at the opening ceremony.

Taipei 2017 Universiade is not just the city’s Universiade, it is the Universiade of Taiwan! This grand international sporting occasion will begin in just two weeks. Almost 12,000 athletes and team staff from 131 countries will arrive in succession at the gateway of Taiwan-Taoyuan International Airport.

The Taipei Universiade torch relay is now following a LOVE shaped route as it links 22 counties and cities across Taiwan. The L, O and V parts of the torch relay were successfully completed. The E part of the torch relay began in Hsinchu County on August 4, moving on to Hsinchu City, Taoyuan City and then, the fourth stop in New Taipei City, on August 7.

Since the launch of the direct flight routes from Taichung City to Bangkok City on the first of July, Taichung City Tourism Bureau visited Bangkok with a group of tourism related businesses, held a promotional event for the 2018 International Taichung Flroa Expo, and signed separate MOU’s with the ATTA and TTAA, to further bring together tourist industries from both sides, provide tourists with local information.

A group of representatives from Bollywood and cinema industry in South India are visiting Taipei for exchanges in tourism and film industry. The trip is a result of efforts by Mayor Ko Wen-je, who visited India in April seeking to boost bilateral ties in film and TV industry by offering incentives in the form of subsidies.

The torch relay is now following a LOVE shaped route as it links 22 counties and cities across Taiwan. The L and O parts of the torch relay were successfully completed. After being held on successive days in Taitung County, Pingtung County, Kaohsiung City, Chiayi County, Yunlin County, Tainan City and Chiayi City, the V part of the torch relay arrived at Nantou County for its eighth stop.

The torch relay is now following a LOVE shaped route as it links 22 counties and cities across Taiwan. After the completion of the L and O parts of the route, the V shaped part of the relay began. Starting in Taitung County, it moved to Pingtung County, Kaohsiung City and then Chiayi County. Now the fifth and the latest stop being Yunlin County.

The gold, silver and bronze medals as well as associated presentation materials for the upcoming 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade, the largest sporting event ever staged in Taiwan, were unveiled July 31 in Taipei City.

On July 28th, the fourth leg of the V part of the relay, Chiayi County, was held. Although the relay route from the county government building to the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum was only three kilometers long, but it was not an easy task. The museum only came into existence after a long and arduous process lasting 11 years, and then finally, officially opened in 2015. It is a national level museum, which is being positioned as an “Asian art and culture museum.”

Taoyuan has opened a new center providing services to new immigrants and migrant workers in the city, in an effort to improve the services available to them.