NCL has just established the Taiwan Resources Center for Chinese Studies at the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czeck Republic (ASCR) in 2014. Its Director, Mr. Ondřej Beranek, led a delegation to Taiwan to attend the opening ceremony of its branch research center at the Academia Sinica Institute of History and Philology. Shortly after the ceremony, Director Beranek and his delegation visited the NCL to discuss how to enhance and promote bilateral cultural cooperation and academic exchange programs.