December 2001
Founders’ dinner at the Ambassador Hotel

April 2002
The first meeting of the board of directors

May 2002
Registration with the Ministry of the Interior completed

June 2002
Taiwan Advocates officially begins operations

October 2002
Toward Becoming a Normal Nation international symposium on governmental reform. As chairman of Taiwan Advocates, former president Lee Teng-hui gave the keynote address: “Toward becoming a normal nation”

December 2002
Publication of Taiwan’s Goals for the 21st Century; second meeting of the board of Taiwan Advocates

January 2003
Book launch for Taiwan’s Goals for the 21st Century, and signature drive gathering

April 2003
Third meeting of the board of Taiwan Advocates

May 2003
The LeeTeng-huiSchool officially begins to offer classes, starting with the first program of the Leadership Institute program in national policy studies

June 2003
Hong Kong under “One Country, Two Systems” international symposium

August 2003
The first program of the Leadership Institute course in national policy studies concludes

October 2003
The first program in Leadership Institute national policy studies, National affairs discussion program and Leadership Institute course in teacher training commence; fourth meeting of the board of Taiwan Advocates

November 2003
2003 Fundraising Dinner; international symposium on Cross-Strait Relations and National Security

December 2003
Second program of Leadership Institute course in national policy studies commences; first program of Leadership Institute young leaders program commences

January 2004
Fifth meeting of the board of Taiwan Advocates

February 2004
“Hearing the Public Voice on Constitutional Reform” public hearing with real-time links to locations around Taiwan

March 2004
“A Referendum on Constitutional Reform: Taiwan speaks” forum; begins publication of the first Taiwan Prospects series

April 2004
“Looking at Taiwan’s Constitutional Government from the Perspective of the 2004 Presidential Elections” public forum in northern Taiwan

May 2004
Book launch of “Witness Taiwan: President Chiang Ching-kuo and Me” produced jointly with the Academia Historica; holds public forum Looking at Taiwan’s Constitutional Government from the Perspective of the 2004 Presidential Election in South and Central Taiwan; begins publication of second series of Taiwan Prospects series

June 2004
“Voicing Support for Taiwan Businesspeople in China” forum; sixth meeting of the board of Taiwan Advocates

July 2004
The first class of the LeeTeng-huiSchool program in national affairs for overseas Taiwanese and the LeeTeng-huiSchool program for Taiwan’s young elite overseas commences

August 2004
Conference on Social Development for Taiwan’s Aborigines

October 2004
Conference on Constitutional Reform in Taiwan and Japan and its Effects on Regional Security in Asia; 2004 fundraising dinner

November 2004
“The Legitimacy of a New Constitution for Taiwan” international symposium; third program of the Lee Teng-hui School’s Leadership Institute course in national policy studies and Leadership Institute young leaders class, second program for Leadership Institute program in Agricultural Economy and first program for the Hakka cultural research program commence