First national eyewear tourism factory; Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te: Deep local roots

China's first eyewear tourism factory, Hwamei Optical eye Play Vision World, held a ribbon-cutting and plaque-unveiling ceremony on the 19th jointly led by Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te, Hwamei Optical General Manager Chen Chih-ming and several distinguished guests, symbolizing a further upgrade of Taiwan's eyewear industry and promoting vision protection and prevention. Mayor Lai also welcomed the establishment of Tainan's 23rd tourism factory as enriching the content of the tourism playground.

In his speech, Mayor Lai Ching-te first congratulated Hwamei Optical on passing the Ministry of Economic Affairs' evaluation and becoming Tainan City's 23rd tourism factory. He believed that the factory's establishment would drive tourism business opportunities around Anding District and also provide the public with more diverse travel options. Mayor Lai pointed out that Hwamei is Taiwan's first professional eyewear laboratory to obtain ISO17025 certification, and has also obtained ISO9000, ISO14000 and WRAP certifications. In 2002, it acquired the sports eyewear brand "720armour" and introduced its manufacture and sales in Taiwan. Today the company's products are marketed globally across China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and Southeast Asia, and it hopes to become an extreme brand in extreme sports in the future.

Mayor Lai Ching-te stated that Tainan is Taiwan's first city and Taiwan's cultural capital. At the same time, in order to connect with the modern international community, it is not only a low-carbon city and a smart new capital, but also a tourism playground. To build Tainan into a tourism playground, tourism factories are an important part of constructing that tourism playground. At present there are already 23 tourism factories, with more than 100,000 visitors per month, and turnover has grown to 40 million New Taiwan dollars per month, driving new business opportunities for the industry.

General Manager Chen Chih-ming expressed the hope that "eye Play Vision World" will use fun and entertaining vision education to provide an experience space that combines education with entertainment, passing more vision knowledge and achievements on to the public, and making eye Play Vision World the country's best new destination for "knowledge tourism" and "experience tourism" where the whole family can enjoy themselves together, accompanying more consumers to embrace excellent vision and see happiness together.