The first slow city in Taiwan to be certified as an international slow city was Fenglin Township in Hualien County in 2014, followed by Sanyi Township and Nanzhuang Township in Miaoli County and Dalin Township in Chiayi County in 2016. In view of the application for certification and promotion of slow cities, the Taiwan Slow City Alliance was formally established in 2017, with the main members being Hualien Fenghuanglin Township, Chiayi Dalin Township, Miaoli Nanzhuang Township, and Miaoli Sanyi Township, which have already been certified by the Slow City Headquarters of Italy, and the first president of Fenghuanglin Township, Mr. Hsiao Wen-lung. A total of 12 townships, including Taichung City’s Heping District, Yunlin County’s Gukeng Township, Pingtung County’s Majia Township and Jutian Township, Hualien County’s Yuli Township, Taitung County’s Chihshang Township and Luno Township, and Lianjiang County’s Dongyin Township, have joined the alliance, and in 2022, Miaoli County’s Sanyi Township Mayor, Lui Ming-chung, will be appointed as the second chairman of the alliance. In order to enable the members of the Taiwan Slow City Alliance to work together to conserve the natural environment and ecology, maintain traditional cultural assets, and promote a slow and healthy lifestyle, and to establish a town that meets the seven aspects and 72 indicators of an international slow city, the Alliance will hold its first annual conference in 2020 in Jhutian Township, to create a new model of ‘slow’ tourism, so as to make the slow life recognisable to the public and to attract international tourists to come here to enjoy slow life. In 2021, Taitung Chihshang hosted the second annual conference, successfully attracting the public’s awareness of international slow cities.

After the global epidemic, the third and fourth annual conferences were held in Miaoli’s Sanyi and Nanzhuang in 2022 and 2023, inviting the vice-chairman of the International Slow City to come to Taiwan to share the experience of Korea’s Slow City, and opening up opportunities for exchanges between Taiwan’s Slow City towns and Korea’s Slow City. This year, Chihshang Township in Taitung County has also been certified as an International Slow City and will host the 5th Annual Conference of the Taiwan Slow City Alliance, inviting scholars from Australia, Korea, and Thailand to participate in the event and share their experiences of slow cities and townships, as well as expanding the visibility of Taiwan’s slow cities in the international arena.

In 2020, Jhutian Township in Pingtung County was successfully certified as an International Slow Town, and in June 2024, Chihshang Township in Taitung County will be travelling to the International Slow Town Conference in Italy by Mayor Lin Jianhong to be certified as an International Slow Town. In addition, Lianjiang Dongyin, which has military and marine ecological characteristics, will also start the application for a slow city press conference in December 2023, presenting the international slow city as an opportunity to open up Taiwan as an international bright spot.