• 2022-04-01

On the afternoon of March 15, 2022, Achilles Yeh, Director of the Trade and Investment Promotion Section, Embassy of the Kingdom of Eswatini, arrived at the National Central Library in the company of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education Department of International and Cross-strait Education Section Chief Xiao-ying Lin and Education Secretary Yi-da Chen for an official visit with NCL Director-General Shu-hsien Tseng in order to learn about the possibilities for future collaborations with NCL in cultural and educational projects as well as methods and channels for the promotion of children’s literature.

NCL Director-General Tseng gave Director Yeh a detailed introduction to NCL and the achievements of NCL’s academic, artistic, cultural, and other diverse collaborations and exchanges with foreign organizations in Taiwan. These include inviting foreign authors to lecture in Taiwan, promoting reading and literacy, organizing cultural lectures, and planning a diverse array of exhibits and programs. Director Yeh expressed great interest in international culture and education exchanges and reading promotion activities. He also stated his intent to facilitate international collaborations in culture and education among five of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies (the Kingdom of Eswatini, Belize, Honduras, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), as well as his hopes of engaging in exchanges and collaboration with other public libraries in Taiwan.