Taiwan Church News 3255 Edition July 14 - July 20, 2014 Church Ministry News Members Of CEI 2014 Encounter The Beauty Of Taiwan At Yi-lan County Organized by TESA(Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association) and Earth Charter Taiwan (ECT), CEI(Caretakers of the Environment International) 2014 is held from July 6 to 12 on the campus the Huey Deng High School at Yi-lan county of northeaster Taiwan. Over 300 high school students of 17 different countries, from Australia, Greek, USA, Holland, Ireland, Russia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Poland, Hungary, Malaysia, Sweden, Portugal, Denmark and Scotland, go to visit various kinds of ecological park, preservation lands and organic agricultural farmings in order to learn Taiwan's ecological efforts. Chen Tze-mei(Nancy), General Secretary of TESA, remarks that the CEI 2014, under the headline as "Nature, Culture and Future", is expecting to do something to reduce environmental pollution, stimulate new concepts on renewable energy and exchange some ideas, through such international youth visit and learning from Taiwan's local ecological efforts. Chen said, in July 2011 at Hungary, it is the first time Taiwan was invited to attend CEI annual assembly - Natural Heritage and Tourism through Biodiversity - for high school students. Afterwards, the Board of CEI authorized ECT to hold CEI 2014. The reason why Yi-lan county is picked to be the major site for tour and visit is due to her efforts to maintain an agricultural farmings withlow pollution organic. And the year CEI was established is also the same year, when Taiwan was lifted from martial law rulings and when former Yi-lan Magistrate Chen Ding-nan fearlessly decided to veto the powerful intimating but colossally lucrative investment of the Sixth Naphata Cracking Plant Formosa Plastics Company to step in Yi-lan. Translated by Peter Wolfe |