New Leadership Appointments at the Council of Agriculture: Feng Haidong Promoted to Director-General of the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Huang Hongyan to Head the Fisheries Agency, and Zhang Bin to Lead the Taiwan Forestry
The Council of Agriculture's new personnel list is out: Feng Haidong, currently deputy director-general of the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, will take over as director-general of the bureau; Huang Hung-yen, currently deputy director-general of the Fisheries Agency, will take over as director-general of the Fisheries Agency; and Chang Pin, former deputy director-general of the Forestry Bureau, will take over as director-general of the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute.
TFRI Director-General Chang Pin: Take care of forest farmers, develop the industry
The new director-general of the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Chang Pin, has previously served as deputy director-general of the Forestry Bureau, director of the Hualien Forest District Office, and counselor of the Council of Agriculture. He has long focused on forestry and actively promoted restoration, afforestation, and the implementation of national land security policy.
The Taiwan Forestry Research Institute held a handover ceremony for its director-general on the 16th. At the ceremony, Chang Pin said, "The minister gave me two instructions: take care of forest farmers and develop the industry." All forest farmers are the people the TFRI must take care of, and he hopes to strengthen cooperation with the Forestry Bureau and local governments, so that through industry guidance the livelihoods of forest farmers can truly be improved, which will also help the forests.
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