Taiwan Post Salutes 100 Years of Scouting

In 1907, an organization was started that would change the lives of boys and girls worldwide. The Taiwan Post honoured the centenary of the scouting organization which promotes the ideals of wisdom, courage, and creating a better world. The Centenary of World Scouting Commemorative Issue, designed by Ben Wang, captures the spirit of scouting in the form of a dove, a symbol of freedom and peace. Scout rope forms the number "100" and encircles the World Organization of the Scout Movement and Scouts of ROC emblems. Even the colors themselves have meaning, blue and green colors of nature representing the coexistence of scouts and their natural world.

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The Scouts of China (Traditional Chinese: 中國童軍; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhōngguó Tóngjyūn; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó Tóngjūn) is the national scouting association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and is a member of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement. The Scouts of China has 46,557 members as of 2008.The original name in Chinese was 中國童子軍 (Tongyong Pinyin: Jhōngguó Tóngzǐjyūn; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó Tóngzǐjūn); after June 1st 2008 this name has been changed to the current name.

Following the birth of the Republic of China the first Scout troop was organized in Wuchang in 1912 and the Scouting movement spread rapidly all over the country. In 1930 the First NationalJamboreesof the Boy Scouts of China was held in Nanking, attended by 3,575 Scouts, and the Second National Jamboree in 1936, also held in Nanking, hosted 13,268 Scouts. The General Association of the Scouts of China was formally established in Nanking in 1934, and became a member of the Internarional Scout Bureau in 1937.

Registered membership reached 570,000 in 1941. However, all Scouting activities were interrupted in 1949, when thecommunists took overMainland China The Chinese Scout Association was reorganized in 1950 on the island of Taiwan, and resumed the membership of the International Scout Bureau as Scouts of China, though the name of Scout organisation is still the General Association of the Scouts of China.