ECCT Premium Event
Hosted in Association with the New Taipei City Government
Lunch with New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-ih

Guest speaker
Dr Hou Yu-ih, Mayor, New Taipei City Government 新北市 侯友宜市長

12:00 – 14:00, Monday, 21 September 2020
Hilton Taipei Sinban Hotel, Wishful C, 2F / 新板希爾頓2樓如意C廳
No.88, Minquan Rd. Banqiao Dist. New Taipei City /新北市板橋區民權路88號

The ECCT will hold a Premium Event lunch with New Taipei City Mayor Hou Yu-ih and senior officials from the New Taipei City Government. At the event, Mayor Hou will give a presentation in which he will talk about his future plans for the city, the investment environment, epidemic prevention and stimulus package, among other topics.

New Taipei City (or Xinbei) is Taiwan’s most populous city with a population of around four million and multiple thriving industry sectors. The city is home to 280,000 privately-owned companies and 20,000 factories as well as cultural and creative industries, such as pottery industry in Yingge, drums in Xinzhuang and dye in Sanxia. The city also has many museums and tourist attractions such as the Yeliou Ocean Park and hot springs in Jinshan and Wanli.

Among other subjects in his presentation, the mayor will talk about the following:
• Major public transport and infrastructure plans, housing and urban renewal projects
• Travel and tourism development
• Plans to improve traffic safety and communications infrastructure

About the speaker

Dr Hou Yu-ih has been the mayor of New Taipei City since December 2018. Immediately prior to his current position he served as deputy mayor of the city (from 2014-2018). He began his career in the Taipei City Police Department and went on to become an inspector in the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB), a division of the National Police Agency (NPA), under the Ministry of the Interior. He was later named second in command of the CIB and given the concurrent post of Taoyuan County Police Commissioner and subsequently promoted to commissioner of the CIB. He went on to become director-general of the NPA and president of the Central Police University. He holds a doctorate from the Graduate School of Crime Prevention and Corrections at the Central Police University.

*This event will be conducted in Chinese. 本活動將以中文進行
NT$1,600 for members; NT$2,200 for members' guest(s)
To Cancel without penalty, written cancellations must be received 24 hours prior to the event.
Contact: Fiona Lee / Tel 2740-0236 ext. 216 / fiona.lee@ecct.com.tw / www.ecct.com.tw