Our second VLR follows the "leaving no one behind" spirit which has already been applied to our first VLR (2019). The 2021 VLR contains 60 cases of actions (including pandemic-prevention actions) taken by bureaus or public-private partners that implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Its package also embodies the concept of sustainability and green recycle, encouraging citizens to support SDGs in the daily lives and to pursue a better New Taipei.

New Taipei was the first city in Taiwan and tenth in the world to release its Voluntary Local Review (VLR) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), revealing to the world the city’s determination to achieve sustainability. The second VLR released in Nov. 2022. ||The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has developed “SDG Synergies”, a practical tool for comprehending and visualising the interactions between different targets based on systems thinking. Designed by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute, SDG synergies can support national and sub-national governments to implement the SDGs in an integrated manner. It is used in this report with the authorization to Plan b Inc.

New Taipei is a thriving city faces high level challenges to achieve sustainable development goals especially when it has some long-term existing environmental issues. But we always do SDGs implementations to the highest standards.

Ms. Ching-Yu Yao expressed appreciation for bureaus’ cooperation for VLR, international partners’ mutual support, and encouragement for SDGs implementation and pandemic prevention.

Kent Larson directs the City Science (formerly Changing Places) group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on developing urban interventions that enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performance districts in cities.

Nigel Jacob is the Co-founder of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, a civic innovation incubator and R&D Lab within Boston’s City Hall. Nigel’s work is about making urban life better via innovative, people-oriented applications of technology and design. Prior to joining the City of Boston in 2006, Nigel worked in a series of technology start-ups in the Boston area.

Mayor Hou expressed appreciation for international parterners’ participation and his support towards updating public service satisfaction and efficiency rate by technology application. Regarding signing the New York City Voluntary Local Review (VLR) Declaration and Climate Emergency Declaration, we would put promises into action.

The New Taipei City Government building’s experimental meeting space, Comma Lab, which won Special Jury Award and Office Space Award at the 2020 Taiwan Interior Design Award.||With the surrounding of sunshine, the vitality of greenery extends to the inner space; shorten the distance between human and nature. People can discuss, eat together or have new chances to meet new people and ideas in Comma Lab

It aims to create an environmental-friendly, multi-functional and efficient working area, letting users to create their own space and meet the needs of rapid changes in this digital age.

The Comma Lab is located at 3F of New Taipei City Hall, it is an experimental meeting space full of possibilities that it provides NTP staff a place to ponder, interact, and brainstorm.

The topic is from prevention to post-pandemic recovery. New Taipei applies the 6P strategy for COVID-19 pandemic prevention. First is to proact, the second is to plan, the third is to prepare, the fourth is to protect, the fifth is the package, the sixth is practice. Regarding post-pandemic recovery, we would apply the progressive reopening strategy which includes 2 phases and 4 stages.

The city government's responses before, during, and after the pandemic. First, the analysis of the pandemic impact on various industries. Secondly, the “confidence economy’ strategies include consumer confidence, business confidence, and investment confidence.

During the pandemic, we paid attention to the pandemic effects on different genders and those in disadvantaged groups. Therefore, we have launched various gender-friendly pandemic-prevention measures

This briefing will cover four topics, pandemic prevention strategies, learning plans, pandemic prevention drills, and integrated innovation.

This presentation consists of three parts, New Taipei City's pandemic prevention results, a trustworthy command system, and the recently lifted restrictions in New Taipei City.

A webnar co-hosted by New Taipei City Government, Thrive Alliance, San Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce, San Mateo County API Caucus, Organization of Chinese Americans and San Mateo Chapter.

To promote New Taipei SDGs efforts and respond to World Cities Day, which is the annual United Nations observance day held on 31 October, New Taipei released a Post-Pandemic Era SDGs special.

The number of reported domestic violence cases in New Taipei City increased by nearly 30% in March compared with the same period in 2019.

New Taipei City keeps one jump ahead but leaves no one behind. When Cincinnati, the U.S., and Starnberg, Germany, wrote to New Taipei City asking for medical supply help, we donated isolation gowns, face shields, and fabric masks made in New Taipei in the name of Hou.

New Taipei City has developed various standard operating procedures for pandemic control for facilitate effective, rapid and comprehensive pandemic control practices in accordance with relevant policies of central government. To avoid community spread and large-scale local transmission, the drill encompasses regular pandemic control practices, practices of home quarantine and home isolation, and response measures to large-scale location transmission.

Mayor Hou recorded a Taiwanese version of promotional video to ask citizens keep good hygene habbits to prevent from getting Covid-19.

The supports from international societies for New Taipei SDGs action： André Corrêa d'Almeida, Columbia University Adjunct Associate Professor; Dr. Belay Begashaw, Director General of Sustainable Development Center for Africa; Stephany Uy-Tan, City Councilor of Catalogan City; Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi, Secretary-General of UCLG Africa; Baikuntha Neupane, Mayor of Vyas Municipality(Nepal); Harunobu Ota, Assistant Chief of International Affairs Division of Hamamatsu City; and Cheon Gwang-pil, Executive Director of Job & Economy Bureau of Goyang City, Korea.

Taiwan's first VLR was born! As the largest city in Taiwan with a population of 4 million, New Taipei City expected itself to connect with the international community. Since UN announced SDGs in 2015, the administration of New Taipei City has worked proactively on its first VLR. The digital version was released in July, 2019, which counted as the first VLR in Taiwan and the 10th in the world. The launch party held in the Sanchong military village was joined by numerous staff members and citizens in a Taiwanese traditional way, highlighting our wishes for implementing the SDGs locally and unitedly.

New Taipei City follows the SDGs as the blueprint of its city development, promising citizens a more livable city environment. Its policy-making emphasizes on 6 aspects (new arrivals, revitalization, new aesthetics, new trends, new connections, and new leadership) in order to established its own 2030 agenda. Also, the administration of the city government will keep moving forward to create a better future for the city in a sustainable way.|

Appreciation for international friendship: New Taipei actively interacts with world cities and builds solid relationships to promote the city development and let the world know New Taipei better.

A total of 450 people, including city government officials, healthcare workers, military personnel and community volunteers participated in the drill. Four stages were performed in the drill:||Stage 1: Before a local transmission occurs.|Stage 2: When individual cases are confirmed (people under home isolation are sent to hospitals)|Stage 3: When a single local transmission has occurred (confirmed cases from various stories and apartments in the same buildings, individual cases from neighboring buildings)|Stage 4: When a large-scale community spread has occurred in a neighborhood ||New Taipei City keeps staying cautious and deploys relevant measures in advance. We will keep the worst-case scenario in mind and best prepare ourselves for it.|

When the New Taipei population reached four million, New Taipei received congrats from all over the world.

What are SDGs? Let Mayor Hou tell you! A progressive city should not only produce economic advantages, but also provide social improvement and environmental protection, so as to align itself with UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). New Taipei City is the first city in Taiwan to have published its first Voluntary Local Review (VLR) on the guidelines of SDGs in July, 2019. It analyzes itself according to standards of a metropolis, hoping to acchieve a better governance.