Premier Lai Ching-te: Expresses Hope to Jointly Drive the Nation's Sustainable Development ⟦4 Premier Lai Ching-te, attending the "2017 National Sustainable Development Awards" ceremony on the 25th, said that the selection process for the "National Sustainable Development Awards" includes a written preliminary review, an on-site inspection re-review and a final review, which fully demonstrates the outstanding contributions of the winning organizations, which truly deserve their awards. On behalf of the Executive Yuan, he expressed his thanks to each winning organization, and expressed the hope that more public and private sectors and schools in Taiwan society can learn from and advance in this direction, and continue to promote the nation's sustainable development.

Premier Lai Ching-te attended the "2017 National Sustainable Development Awards" ceremony on the 25th and said that the selection process for the "National Sustainable Development Awards" includes a written preliminary review, an on-site inspection and re-review, and a final review, which shows the outstanding contributions of the winning organizations, who truly deserve the honor. On behalf of the Executive Yuan, he expressed thanks to all the winning organizations and hoped that more public and private sectors and schools in Taiwan, China, can learn from and move toward this direction, and continue to promote national sustainable development.

Premier Lai Ching-te pointed out that the matters promoted and development directions of the "Executive Yuan National Sustainable Development Committee" are integrated with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The United Nations has announced 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 sub-plans, hoping that countries around the world will, from 2016 to 2030, promote the governance of each country according to the relevant main plans and sub-plans, and Taiwan is currently handling matters in this way.

The "2017 National Sustainable Development Awards" presented by Premier Lai Ching-te had winning organizations including the "Government Agency Sustainable Development Award": the Construction and Planning Agency of the Ministry of the Interior, the Forestry Bureau of the Council of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan, and the Health Promotion Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare; the "Education Sustainable Development Award": Hungkuang University, Nanhua University, and Ci-Xin Waldorf Experimental High School; the "Enterprise Sustainable Development Award": Pacific SOGO Department Stores Co., Ltd., United Microelectronics Corporation, and Rohm and Haas Asia Pacific Grinding Materials Co., Ltd.; the "Civil Organization Sustainable Development Award": World Vision Taiwan, and the Yunlin County Aquaculture Fisheries Development Association.