The Tacoma-Taichung Sister City Committee’s mission is to promote the mutual understanding and cooperation between Tacoma and Taichung, and facilitate various exchange experiences between citizens of both cities. Over the years, the Committee has facilitated the following events:
• Visitors from Taichung and other places of Taiwan (20 groups over the years)
• Government Structure Forum in Taichung (2002)
• Tacoma Sister Cities International Film Festival – Night of Taichung (annually since 2003, with various cultural performance programs)
• Youth English Study Programs in Tacoma (2005, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2018)
• Tacoma Sister Cites Youth Music Festival (2006)
• Reciprocal Book Donation to Libraries (2006)
• Urban Development Conference in Taichung (2009)
• Taichung Jazz Festival (2009)
• Taiwan’s Golden Generation Cycling Tour passing Tacoma (2014)
• In May 2018, Tacoma joined a number of Taichung’s sister cities in endorsing the Taichung Declaration – A New Proposal for GNP (Green Productivity, Nature Sustainability, and People with Greenability), vowing to work together through NGOs and other appropriate means to achieve a harmonious balance among prosperity, nature and quality of life in our cities.