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(c) In September 2022, the "19th Taiwan-Japan Symposium" was convened through video conferencing,
focusing on the exchange and discussion of topics such as "COVID-19 Prevention Policy," "Antimicrobial
Resistance," and "Collaboration studies between Taiwan CDC and NIID Japan."
(d) In October 2022, the "Global health and Welfare Forum in Taiwan" was held with 1 key-note speech,
3 plenary sessions, and 5 parallel sessions. The theme centered around "One Health – Advancing
Health and Well-being for All," exploring how humanity can coexist and prosper with the foundations
of health, the ecosystems, thereby advocating the importance of global unity. The MOHW hosted the
forum in a hybrid format, with 15 foreign speakers delivering speeches in person, over 900 attendees
present physically, and more than 6,000 participants from over 50 countries in Europe, America, Africa,
Southeast Asia, and Australia joining online.

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(e) In December 2022, the "Taiwan Healthcare Expo," a grand exhibition of Taiwan's medical technology,
took place with the esteemed presence of President Ing-Wen Tsai delivering her address. This exhibition
boasted an expansive scale with 2,750 booths in total (including 2,150 physical booths and 600 online
booths), attracting over 30,000 professionals from both domestic/international arenas and nearly
150,000 attendees/leads. Among them were more than 100 hospital representatives from the NSP
countries, who came to Taiwan to engage in collaborative efforts for digital transformation in healthcare
and over 30 chambers of commerce and industry associations, who came to Taiwan for procurement
matchmaking. The event stimulated the creation of approximately NTD 3.47 billion in economic value.

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