Technicians honored on aid missions 50th anniversary

“These specialists overcame great difficulties to improve the locals' livelihoods and lay solid foundations for relations between Taiwan and other countries,” Yang said at a ceremony in Taipei. “They also helped raise Taiwan's international profile,” he added.

Taiwan, which has enjoyed economic prosperity over the past several decades based on its agricultural and high-tech industries, has only limited space in the international community due to China's suppression.

The country at present maintains official ties with 23 countries, mostly in Central America, the Caribbean and Africa. The country sent its first mission of farming experts, hailed as “grassroots ambassadors,” to Vietnam in 1959. Today, however, the scope of these missions has moved beyond the agricultural sector.

“We now have missions made up of experts from the high-tech, medical, solar energy, environmental protection, business marketing and computer engineering fields,” Yang noted.

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