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Taoyuan City responds to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and links the city's overall development priorities. In 2011, Taoyuan City joined the ICLEI and is committed to building Taoyuan City into a healthy, safe, low-emission, People-oriented city. Through the ecologistics project office, the city government, industry, experts and scholars, and international organizations jointly promote the development of Taoyuan's ecological logistics, link the city's overall development priorities, write an ecologistics white paper, and draw up the governance blueprint for the city's ecologistics. Strengthening the central and Local links provides a policy basis for promoting ecological logistics.

As enterprises pay more and more attention to sustainable development, ESG (environmental protection, social responsibility, and corporate governance) and sustainable management have become very important. Competition and grasping the latest industry issues and trends help build a sustainable society and excellent enterprises. The Association of Corporate Sustainability Managers will visit Daxi Low-Carbon Tranquility Transfer Station before September 30. Through the guide of environmental education teachers, they will learn about the operation mode of the transfer station and the latest low-carbon and sustainable solutions in the logistics industry.

Taoyuan City participated in the curatorial exhibition of the Asia-Pacific Sustainable Action Expo, and Mayor Zheng Wencan opened the Taoyuan Pavilion today (12). The theme of this curatorial plan is "Taoyuan Net Zero for Sustainable Action". The pavilion includes four major achievement exhibition areas, including "sustainable development", "low carbon city", "ecological logistics" and "circular economy", showing Taoyuan Promotes low-carbon sustainable development results. During the curatorial period, the Taoyuan Pavilion will also organize different themed activities for three consecutive days, including the Ecological Logistics Symposium, Leisurely Tour of Taoyuan Coast, and Sustainable Environmental Education DIY and other activities, and provide promotional materials such as carbon reduction saplings, and the public is welcome to participate. Mayor Zheng Wencan said that to implement the concept of low-carbon green, healthy and livable, smart resilience, and sustainable development in Taoyuan City, Taoyuan City will launch self-government regulations for the development of low-carbon and green cities after the upgrade, and set up green city promotion group. Taoyuan City Government Sustainability Development Association”, the mayor personally serves as the convener, and external experts in related fields such as industry, government, academia, and research are hired to provide advice. Through the joint efforts of the city government colleagues and citizens, Taoyuan has undergone many changes. Mayor Zheng Wencan pointed out that since the transformation experience of Taoyuan City is worth referring to more friends from other countries, Taoyuan also responded to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and released the Voluntary Local Review (VLR) of Taoyuan City for the first time in 2020. VLR 2.0 was launched this year. Based on various environmental backgrounds and conditions in Taoyuan, it focused on 10 highlights, including epidemic prevention, fire safety, multiculturalism, social housing, local creation, cultural assets, education, park sports, sustainable environment, and Net zero carbon emissions. In addition, Mayor Zheng Wencan was also invited to share on sustainable cities at this Asia-Pacific Sustainable Action Expo. In terms of social power, well-planned social welfare policies have been implemented. Since the upgrade, the population has grown by more than 220,000, ranking first in the six capitals. In terms of economic power, as of the end of May 2011, Taoyuan had invested 306.6 billion yuan, accounting for 18% of the total investment in Taiwan, ranking first in the country, and its industrial output value reached 16,622.3 billion yuan, ranking first in the country. In terms of environmental strength, Taoyuan actively develops and promotes green energy. As of May 2011, Taoyuan’s renewable energy capacity was 703MW, of which solar photovoltaics were 467MW, the highest in northern counties and cities, an increase of about 90 times compared to before the upgrade. We also proposed the Taoyuan 2050 net-zero path, through the effective integration of six major departments' carbon reduction strategies, cooperating with industry, government, and academia, and using public-private cooperation to transform Taoyuan's green city into a zero-carbon city. Environmental Protection Director Lu Li-de said that the theme of the Taoyuan Pavilion’s curatorial theme is “sustainable action Taoyuan net zero” as the main axis, and the exhibition areas of “sustainable development, low-carbon city, ecological logistics, and circular economy” are designed separately, from the core of sustainable development 17 The project extends various highlight policies, including green power cities, biomass energy centers, smart street lights, series of river management and improvement, six demonstration areas of ecological logistics, low-carbon transportation, marine waste reuse, and solid renewable fuel (SRF) Technology, etc., statically and dynamically, make the policy lively and close to the people, and make it easy for the people to understand. Environmental Protection Director Lu Li-De explained that Taoyuan's achievements in promoting sustainable development have been recognized by all walks of life. This year, Taoyuan will present more implementation results to participate in the 2022 Asia-Pacific and Taiwan Sustainable Action Award, and win the "Excellent City Award" in the Livable Sustainable City Project. And the city government won 1 gold and 3 bronze awards in the Taiwan Sustainable Action Award project, including Taoyuan's low-carbon green city development (gold award), waste-to-energy Taoyuan biomass energy (bronze award), Taoyuan farmland soil pollution improvement and construction Set up Taoyuan Coastal Education Corridor Belt (Bronze Award). In the end, Mayor Zheng Wencan said that Taoyuan's carbon emissions have dropped by 16.75% compared with before the upgrade on the road of sustainable development and low-carbon city. We will continue to fulfill our obligations as global citizens and firmly implement the vision and goals of SDGs. , to build Taoyuan into a friendly and sustainable city. Today Taoyuan Mayor Zheng Wencan, Municipal Environmental Protection Director Lv Lide, Chairman of the Research and Examination Committee Wu Junting, Economic Development Director Guo Yuxin, Director of Information Technology Yu Wanru, Director of Agriculture Guo Chengquan, Director of Transportation Liu Qingfeng, Director of Land Affairs Cai Jinzhong, Director of Water Affairs Liu Zhenyu, Director of Public Works Lai Yuting, Chen Zengxiang and Jiang Yude, deputy directors of the Environmental Protection Bureau, Su Weifang, deputy director of the Local Taxation Bureau, Lv Mingyang, a special member of the Education Bureau, Lin Liang, director of the Coastal Management Engineering Department, and Luo Wenlin, the head of the Environmental Cleaning Inspection Team, all attended the opening ceremony of the "Taoyuan Pavilion".

Taoyuan Mayor Zheng Wencan went to Guishan District on the morning of the 5th to attend a press conference on "Guishan Third Ring Road Air Quality Maintenance Zone and Diesel Vehicle Control Achievements". Mayor Zheng said that considering that Chunghwa Post Logistics Park will become the mail processing center in northern Taiwan, and Huayna Science and Technology Park and Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital also have a lot of logistics and transportation needs, therefore, the city government planned to set up the first one in the next (110) year. After the "Taoyuan International Airport Air Quality Maintenance Zone", this year (111), the Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Postal Logistics, and Huayna Science and Technology Park will be designated as the "Guishan Third Ring Air Quality Maintenance Zone", which will not only build the country's first medical hospital The district air quality maintenance area also represents another innovative step for Taoyuan to reduce carbon and air pollution. Mayor Zheng pointed out that the "Guishan Third Ring Air Quality Maintenance Zone" will be officially implemented on October 1, 111, and all diesel trucks leaving the factory before June 30, 1988, entering the air quality maintenance zone should obtain the certificate of passing the smoke test within one year before the date of verification; if the person fails to pass the entry, he will be fined up to 60,000 yuan by Article 76(2) of the "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law". Mayor Zheng also reminded that if the owner of the vehicle fails the test, he should obtain the self-management mark as soon as possible during the promotion period, or obtain the test pass record through the mobile testing service, to avoid penalty. Mayor Zheng mentioned that carbon reduction and emission reduction are the goals of Taoyuan’s low-carbon transformation. In terms of overall environmental performance, Taoyuan has continued to deliver good results, especially in the “Air Quality Maintenance and Improvement of Work Performance Demonstration Results” assessed by the Environmental Protection Agency of the Executive Yuan. For 13 consecutive years, it has won the recognition of the special excellence of the municipality group, and as of June (111), the ratio of good air quality indicators (AQI) (less than 50) is still the first in Liudu, and the pollutant reduction PM10 reaches 301.6 metric tons, PM2 .5 at 268.6 metric tons and NOX at 4,459.4 metric tons. In addition, the control effect of PM2.5 is also quite remarkable. The average concentration in 2010 dropped to 13.4 micrograms (μg/m3), which was lower than the national standard value of 15 micrograms (μg/m3), and even dropped to 12.1 in the first half of this year (111). The microgram (μg/m3) has been lower than the national standard value for three consecutive years, indicating that the air pollution control in Taoyuan is successful. Mayor Zheng said that in terms of green transportation development, Taoyuan is the leader of all cities. To strengthen control, the city government has launched a seven-star control strategy, including regular inspection of diesel vehicle exhaust; one diesel vehicle will be set up in Zhongli District and Guishan District respectively. The dynamometer smoke detection station; cooperated with 5 maintenance plants including Formosa Automobile Company, Taikoo Commercial Vehicle Company, Yongdefu Automobile Company, Yuyi Automobile Company, and Changyuan Automobile Company to launch the "Diesel Vehicle Inspection Integration" service; Established more than 100 low-carbon teams; took the lead in promoting E-testing nationwide; promoted ecological logistics and air quality maintenance zones. These efforts not only reduced the proportion of diesel vehicles in the first and second phases from 58% to 28%, a decrease of about 30% but also increased the regular inspection rate by 2 times. All have good results. Mayor Zheng mentioned that the "Diesel Vehicle Dynamometer Smoke Detection Station" in Guishan District was completed and opened in 2010, and obtained the TAF quality certification in 2010. A good impression is that it is a diesel vehicle inspection station with a gold-level green building mark, and has dual inspection lines, which greatly improves the inspection efficiency. Mayor Zheng also said that Taoyuan has always been a national leader in the promotion of electric scooters, and it ranks first in the six cities in terms of growth rate, the popularity of charging stations and swapping stations. At present, the number of electric locomotives in Taoyuan has exceeded 85,000, and the number of two-stroke locomotives has decreased from 155,000 before the upgrade to 26,000. In addition, shared transportation systems such as GoShare, rent, or YouBike are also very developed in Taoyuan. Okay, so the city government is expected to invest another 20 million yuan this year to continue to expand and build a public bicycle rental system to make YouBike more popular. In addition, Taoyuan also launched the country's highest purchase subsidy "Electric Motorcycle Easy Purchase Program", and specially planned the "Epidemic Prevention Hero Project", hoping to encourage citizens to use it more. Mayor Zheng said that Taoyuan is not only an important industrial city but also the logistics and transportation industry is growing rapidly, which shows that Taoyuan is more important in promoting low-carbon transformation. It has been designated as the chairman city of ecological logistics by the international organization ICLEI. Therefore, the city government will continue to Efforts, in addition to actively promoting the five major logistics demonstration areas, also hope that Taoyuan will play the role of a national low-carbon transformation leader, and provide more data for Taoyuan's important strategy of carbon reduction and emission reduction so that Taiwan will become better. Shen Zhixiu, deputy director of the Environmental Protection Agency of the Executive Yuan, said that Taoyuan not only set up the first "Taoyuan International Airport Air Quality Maintenance Zone", but this time took the lead in the country to include Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital into the air quality maintenance zone, and cooperated with Chunghwa Post Logistics Park. Together with Huayna Science and Technology Park, it is designated as the "Guishan Third Ring Road Air Quality Maintenance Zone", especially the public's high medical demand for Chang Gung Hospital. . Deputy Director Shen also said that under the leadership of Mayor Zheng, Taoyuan has continued to deliver outstanding results in environmental protection work, which is a model worthy of learning from counties and cities across the country, and fully demonstrates the determination of the city government team to maintain public health and environmental quality. The Environmental Protection Agency will continue to cooperate with Tao City Government and continue to work hard to jointly protect the health of the Chinese people and the quality of the environment. Deputy Director Shen also mentioned that the Guishan diesel vehicle dynamometer smoke detection station is the only gold-level green building in the country, which combines a solar photovoltaic panel power generation system, rainwater recovery system, tunnel ventilation, and energy saving system, green roof system, landscape pool, park Iron horse station, electric two-wheeled vehicle charging facilities, landscape glass curtain, etc., and the service objects not only provide inspection services for diesel motor vehicle owners in Taoyuan City but also provide services for diesel motor vehicle owners across the country. Today included City Councillor Lin Liling, Executive Yuan Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Director Shen Zhixiu, Municipal Environmental Protection Director Lu Lide, Guishan Branch Director Cai Qiren, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Deputy Director Jian Rongnan, Chunghwa Post Co., Ltd. Director Cai Jifen, Huayna Park Management Consultant Co., Ltd. Huang Xianqing, Director of the Company, Chen Shengguang, Chairman of Formosa Automobile Freight Co., Ltd., Chen Weizhong, General Manager of Taikoo Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd., Liu Zhen, Director of Changyuan Automobile Co., Ltd., and Chen Lianfeng, Director of Pingzhen Plant of Yongdefu Automobile Co., Ltd., Huang Renyu, director of Yuyi Automobile Co., Ltd., Chen Jiaming, director of AUO Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Zhang Jinlun, deputy manager of PC HOMEInternational Information Co., Ltd., Chen Jianhong, manager of Panhang Transportation Co., Ltd., and Guoguang Automobile Passenger Transport Co., Ltd. Deputy Manager Hong Mingquan, Wei Qianyu, head of Tonglian Automobile Passenger Transport Co., Ltd., Zhuang Zhenzhou, deputy business manager of Taoyuan Automobile Passenger Transport Co., Ltd., and Chen Wenzhong, head of Sanchong Automobile Passenger Transport Co., Ltd. all attended the press conference.