Roy Leu

2014 United States visit

In August 2014, Leu visited Chicago, United States (US) to attend the 37th annual convention of Taiwan Benevolent Association of America (TBAA) and overseas Chinese group. Upon his arrival at the city on 14 August 2014, Leu visited Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park to pay his respect and lay flowers at the bronze statue of Sun. He then visited the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of Chicago and heard a presentation about its operations. In the evening, Vice Minister Leu and ROC Representative to the United States Shen Lyu-shun was welcomed in a banquet hosted by TBAA, which was also attended by more than 100 representatives from dozens of overseas Chinese groups in Chicago.

On 15 August 2014, Leu, Shen and other government officials attended the founding assembly for the Committee for the Promotion of Support in North America for Taiwan's entry into Regional Economic Organizations, which aimed to bring together power of the overseas Chinese community to exert influence to help Taiwan join regional economic organizations.

On 16 August 2014, the 37th TBAA annual convention was held, which was attended by Leu and also by Lieutenant Governor of Illinois Sheila Simon. Two homeland situation symposiums were arranged, which were The Domestic Political Situation and International Trends and Chinese Language Education Trends in the US. In the latter symposium, Leu encouraged teachers of Chinese overseas to take the exams to become qualified as a Chinese language in the US and to join mainstream education, passing on Chinese culture.^[2]