The Ministry of Culture held an international forum to identify the cultural values of Taiwan's industrial landscapes, including the Pingxi coal mines and the Alishan Forest Railway, by comparing them with equivalent sites overseas.
Members of the Germany-Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Group paid a visit to the Green Island White Terror Memorial Park, the site of a former military prison operating in the 1970s during the martial-law era known as White Terror.
The National Hsinchu Living Arts Center, one of the four community centers supervised by the Ministry of Culture, has begun overhauling the Hsinchu Assembly Hall, a century-old building that serves as its headquarters.