(2023.10.03)  Taiwan Councilors Forum (TCF) participated in the 7th Asian Councils Forum (ACF) held on October 02-03, 2023 in Cebu City, Philippines.

Taiwan Councilors Forum (TCF) delegation, led by President Wang Wei-Yuan and Honorary President Lin Chin-chamg, comprised 17 members, including one Taipei City Councilor, six New Taipei City Councilors, two Taoyuan City Councilors, and Professor CHEN, Li-kanz (Tim) of Department of Political Science, Soochow University, Professor Chen Chiu-Cheng (Jose) of Department of Public Management and Policy, Tunghai University. Three TCF delegates took the stage on the first day to share their thoughts and exchange views between the stage and the audience about 'Sister City Relations' and 'The Importance of Digitalization of Legislative Procedures & Records'.

The next morning's program featured six young students from Japan who shared their experiences on carbon reduction, investment, symbiosis, and utilization of electricity in the Asia-Pacific region. Following this, the Cebu Provincial Councilors gave guests gifts and discussed the local culture, tourism, and agricultural products.

- The program of the 7th Asian Councils Forum (ACF).

- Four-day Program

- Reports on the 7th Asian Councils Forum (ACF)

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(2023.10.01)  A delegation of 55 local councilors led by Christine Chiong of Naga City, Philippines, visited Taipei City in September 2017 for a city observation and sightseeing trip. The trip included a visit to the Beitou Incineration Plant, arranged by Lin Chin-chang, former Taipei City Councilor and chairman of the Taiwan Councilors Forum. On the day of the visit, director of Beitou Incineration Plant Ms. Chiu and senior engineer Mr. Gu received the reception. In his 25 years as a Taipei City Councilor, Mr. Lin Chin-chang shared his personal experience in waste treatment. Three of them provided the detail explanation to all distinguished guests in Chinese and English. It was believed that the learning trip gave Naga City councilors a deeper understanding of Taipei City's clean city appearance and resource recycling achievements.

Junjie Navales Cruz, the city councilor of Naga City who was in charge of liaison at that time, knew that we would participate in the Asian Councils Forum (ACF) in Cebu, and specially arranged to hold a welcome event and sign a Friendship and Cooperation Agreement on the afternoon of our arrival in Cebu on October 1.

The signing ceremony was scheduled to start at five o'clock in the afternoon. Led by Chairman Sunny-wei Wang and Honorary Chairman Lin Chin-chang, a total of 17 members of the TCF delegation participated in the signing ceremony.

Cebu Province is composed of nine cities, with Cebu City as the administrative center. Naga City is a small city with a population of about 130,000. 70% of the area is mountainous and there is also a beautiful coast. We were flattered by the warm welcome from the Naga City Government. The City Government sent two middle school teachers to pick us up at the Bai Hotel where we were staying. In the pouring rain, policemen riding heavy vehicles cleared the road for us and escorted us all the way to the Naga City Hall.

That afternoon, under the leadership of Mayor Chiong, everyone sang the Philippine national anthem, followed by the Naga city anthem. The signing ceremony officially began after Naga's promotional video was played. Regarding the signing of the Friendly and Cooperation Agreement between the two parties, we initially had reservations about such an arrangement. However, our review of the content showed that it was a friendly agreement which promoted the relationship between the two parties and did not contain any conflicts of interest, so we decided to sign it.

In Naga City, we can feel the enthusiasm and commitment of the entire city government team to the development of our city. We also joked that the visit of the Taiwanese delegation had probably mobilized the manpower of the entire city government, and their attitude towards this signing was cautious and serious. We are deeply moved.

Although Naga City has a small population and a small amount of flat land, they have made great efforts in the areas of health care and education. They provide free medical consultations, serving an average of 80 people a day, and send teachers over the mountains and ridges to teach in the mountains. This time, more than ever, they are actively seeking opportunities to establish sister cities with counties and cities in Taiwan. Their love for their own city is touching!

Reports on visiting Naga City.

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(2022.12.17)   In December 20, 2022, Taiwan Councilors Forum (TCF) participated in the 6th Asian Councils Forum (ACF) organized by Philippine Councilors League (PCL) .

The Taiwan delegation was led by TCF chairman Sunny-wei WANG (王威元), a councilor of New Taipei City, and TCF founder/honorary chairman Chin-chang LIN (林晉章), together with four other New Taipei City councilors, Chien-tang TSAI (蔡健棠), Hsien-hsiang, LIAO (廖先翔), Hsiang-Yi, TAI (戴湘儀) and Chia-kai, LU (呂家愷), as well as Professor Li-kanz, CHEN (陳立剛, Department of Political Science, Soochow University) and Professor Chiu-cheng, CHEN (陳秋政, Department of Public Management and Policy, Tunghai University). One of the countries of ACF founder, Japanese Local Councilors Alliance (JLCA), attended the event with several Japanese private sector sponsors and five junior representatives who had outstanding performance at the “First Japan-ASEAN-Taiwan Next Generation Exchange Forum” and gained the opportunity to speak at the ACF event.

At the conference, TCF chairman Wang made remarks at the opening ceremony and two professors presented their researches as well.

The Philippine Councilors League (PCL) raised its hands at the Chief Delegates Meeting, and agreed to hold the 7th ACF in Cebu City, Philippines, toward the end of September and early October 2023, under the direction of the Philippine Councilors League (PCL). In 2023, we look forward to an exciting conference agenda and activities.

(2020.10.14) We got the prize for the outstanding contributions from the Ministry of Foreigh Affairs (MOFA) of the R.O.C.

The NGO International Affairs Association of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs specially organizes the '109 NGO International Affairs Association of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to commend civil organizations for outstanding contributions' in order to commend our country's civil organizations for their outstanding contributions to international exchanges and activities.

The TCF has signed up to participate in the public policy project and submitted an application and the specific deeds of participating in international exchanges and activities (click the link). After the application was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the TCF has been notified by the NGO International Affairs Association to be selected as “contributing to outstanding non-governmental organizations” and was invited to participate in the '20th Anniversary Party of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs NGO International Affairs Conference' on October 14.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will recognize the TCF’s long-term active participation in international exchange activities and assistance in the expansion and improvement of Taiwan’s diplomatic space. The TCF's Chairman Wang Wei-Yuan and Honorary Chairman Lin Chin-Chang will attend the event to receive the award. With this outstanding achievement, the TCF would like to share this honor with the scholars, experts and local councilors who have participated in the activities of the Association during the last ten years.

(2018.08.21) The 3rd Asian Councils Forum (ACF) has been successfully held on August 19-21, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

The Conference brought together a total of 150 participants from five countries in Asia including Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong, as well as local Japanese councilors.

In view of the fact that Asian countries are more vulnerable to natural disasters, like tropical storms, floods, earthquakes, and landslides, the hosting organization focused on the issues of disaster countermeasures and post-disaster revitalizing strategies as the main discussion subject of this year.

Under the topic theme-Living Together in Asia, there are two-panel discussions, namely:

1. Regional Revitalization Strategies

This Forum shed insight on successful collaboration efforts by countries and regions for increasing innovation and identified the challenges, as well as the roles and responsibilities of the political, administrative, and industrial sectors that were necessary for achieving effective cooperation.

2. Disaster Countermeasures

Japan Administrative officers, professionals and experts analyzed and discussed various aspects of prevention and reduction of damage in the case of natural disasters with participants.

Please click the following links to view reports (Chinese version only) on the event and activities photos of each day.

Report on 2018 3rd Asian Councils Forum 

August 19, 2018 – Welcome Reception 

August 20, 2018 – One day tour in Tokyo (Morning Activities,  Afternoon Activities, and Welcome Party )

August 21, 2018 – ACF Conference   

(2018.06.21)  Lin Chin-chang, President of the Taiwan Local Councils Representatives Community Forum (TCF) was invited by the PCL National Chairperson Danilo Dayanghirang and National President Luis “Chavit” Singson to attend 2018 PCL 2nd Quarterly National Executive Officers-National Board Meeting and 5th Series of Continuing Local Legislative Education Program (CLLE) held on June 21, 2018, in Iloilo City, in the south of Panay Island, Western Visay, Philippines, and made a speech on the topic: The Development of Global Local Legislative Alliances.

Please click for the detailed speech and photos of the event.