The 24th Wandan Sugarcane Cultural Festival was held on Dec. 4, 2021. A “Walk for Thousands, an Intellectual Tour” was held at the sugar railway and in the Wandan sugarcane breeding field. By promoting the local government’s concept of local industry culture, the characteristics of TSC’s sugarcane breeding could be widely known. There were guided tours and displays of sugarcane breeding procedures, enabling the public to take a glimpse of the century-old sugarcane breeding technology. Delicious food such as brown sugar ginger tea, puffed rice treats with Taisugar organic rice, Taisugar popsicles, and so on were provided to the visitors. In addition, there were also activities such as sugar themed poems and sketches competition and exhibition of century-old photos of Wandan. TSC constantly incorporates our corporate culture into the social welfare activities to not only enhance our corporate value but also demonstrate to all that TSC is a heartwarming enterprise.

          Taiwan Sugar Corporation attaches great importance to environmental education, and diversified courses are actively planned in its environmental education centers. Among them, Xihu Sugar Factory, Jianshanpi Resort and Ciatou Sugar Factory have successively obtained the Environmental Education Field Certification. Hualien Tourism Sugar Factory has submitted the application for the certification in 2019, and obtain environmental education site certification in November 2021. It is hoped that all the people living on this land can make rediscovery of the environment through the power of education.

          Currently, there are ecological areas for bees and Hercules beetles and habitats for fireflies in the resort, and animal nest boxes are also provided for animals in the low elevation mountains to settle and reproduce their next generation. During July and August in 2021, the Firefly Education Promotion activity was held in Xushan Community. We also cooperated with the field trip of Sinshan Elementary School and provided educational promotion of the reservoir for sugar-making, birds-friendly windows, and firefly rehabilitation.

          Jianshanpi Resort was awarded its first Taiwan Sustainability Action Award (TSAA) in 2021 after being awarded the “2019 Excellence Award for the Promotion of Environmental Education in Tainan City and obtained the Environmental Education Certificate. It will continue to carry out ecological restoration and environmental education to give back to the society.