Taichung World Flora Expo has conducted its great opening today(3rd), the City Government has held the signing ceremony of the 《Taichung Declaration》. During the ceremony, Mayor Chia-lung Lin has passed the declaration co-signed by 178 organizations either from Taiwan or the other countries to Mr. Bernard Oosterom, Chairman of International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH). AIPH has highly recognized the《Taichung Declaration》and share the declaration on the official website of AIPH to make the people from everywhere to read it. The declaration will become an official document in the future to be the reference for the other cities when they’re going to conduct the next Flora Expo and propose the value of the sustainable development to the world. Mayor Lin said, he’d like to appreciate the recognition from the world and welcome everyone to come to Taichung from every place of the world to be our guests and listen to the sound of blossoms.
The signing ceremony of《Taichung Declaration》conducted today had many organizations invited by the City Government to exhibit interactively. Mayor of Almere, Netherlands, Franc Weerwind, who will be the organizer of 2022 Flora Expo, is the representative of 178 domestic and international cities, international organizations or international councils to pass the the signed《Taichung Declaration》by all the international societies to Mayor Lin and Mayor Lin has led the representatives of the organizations signing the declaration to read it to deliver the philosophy of Flora Expo GNP to the world and make the world better with the effort of everybody together.
Later on, Mayor Lin passed the《Taichung Declaration》to Mr. Bernard Oosterom, Chairman of International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) to reflect the brand new GNP idea proposed by Taichung has stepped on the international stage. Now the declaration has been an official document of AIPH to be a new model of the other cities when they’re going to conduct the next Flora Expo.
It’s a big event with around 400 people, either Mayors or representatives of the cities or the officers of the representative offices in Taiwan, participating in from the following 27 countries, including Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Indonesia, the United States, Ukraine, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, República del Paraguay, Hungary, Republic of Kiribati, Tuvalu, Belize, Russia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Philippines, Mongolia, República de Nicaragua, Palau, Oman, Singapore, Thailand, Chile, Italy etc.
Mayor Lin mentioned, the whole contents of Taichung World Flora Expo has been recognized by the AIPH and the《Taichung Declaration》proposed by Taichung City Government is highly appreciated as well. We anticipate the idea of「Exploring GNP」 will allow the environmental development sustainably by combining the green production with the natural ecosystem and the human cultural lives. The《Taichung Declaration》was proposed and originated from the idea with 178 cities and international organizations from 50 countries to sign up and support. It will become the official AIPH document to have Taichung as a role model for the other cities while conducting the Flora Expo in the future.
He has pointed out the signing ceremony of today was great and all the representatives from the foreign representative offices in Taiwan were on site to participate in the event. Especially, the Chairman of AIPH, Bernard Oosterom, has just mentioned we have established the benchmark for the future municipal administration management in his talk earlier. Mayor of Almere, Netherlands, Franc Weerwind, has blessed us as the representative of the declaration signed cities. He thought the contents listed in《Taichung Declaration》are the visions of all the cities pursuing in the future.
Mayor Lin anticipates the left parts after the Flora Expo will not only be the exhibition halls or pavilions for further uses, but also Taiwan has been led to step in the array of the world and the world has come to Taiwan. This is what we believe that Taichung Flora Expo is a gift we’d like to send to the world from Taiwan.
Chairman of AIPH, Bernard Oosterom said, Taichung World Flora Expo has been launched today and it’s a big event with a lot of attentions around the world. It brought the world a new idea and interpretation of GNP(Green for green sustainability, Nature for love the nature and People for human cultural lives).
Bernard Oosterom also mentioned, he has visited the three major Taichung Flora Expo Parks. He reminded the people of not just visiting one park but visiting all of them; not just visiting for once but visiting for times.《Taichung Declaration》is a very important milestone for AIPH and AIPH will apply the 《Taichung Declaration》and tell everybody, this is the good model to follow!
「Wonderful job!」Mayor of Almere, Netherlands, Franc Weerwind said, he has been to Taichung one year ago. He is surprised Taichung has completed such a challenging task in one year and established a benchmark for the whole world. After 2050, 75% of global population will live in the cities so the new GNP idea delivered by《Taichung Declaration》is very important to the future human development of the whole world.
The officer of the City Government said,《Taichung Declaration》has been signed by 178 cities and international organizations from 50 countries, including 94 foreign cities and 17 domestic cities in addition to AIPH, ICLEI, CITYNET, UCLG, ASPAC etc. and foreign councils and councilors from Nagoya, Ehime in Japan, Gwangyang in South Korea, Salzburg in Austria and so on. Besides, some officers from the foreign representative offices in Taiwan have joined in this activity as well to promote the idea of「Exploring GNP」to the world.
Taichung World Flora Expo has been prepared for more than 2000 days with the great efforts of many people. Today we have had the great opening finally. We wish to show the new GNP value through the《Taichung Declaration》and prove Taichung is confident to take the international responsibility to create the new model of city management to be followed and move forward the great future with everyone together.