• Mr. Koo Hsien-Jung bought Taiho farm, which covers 5,000 hectares in Pingtung County

• Ms. Cecilia Koo Yan led hundreds of farmers to promote the local economy and education through land reclamation and school construction

• Dr. Chia-Wei Li, a Taiwanese biologist and former director of the National Museum of Natural Science, planned construction of a tropical plant conservation center in Taiwan

• Ms. Cecilia Koo Yan offered the five-hectare Taiho farm for the grounds of the tropical plant conservation center. The Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center was founded by Taiwan Cement Corporation Group (TCC Group), to support and launch the proposal of global tropical plant conservation

• The Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center was launched, with the prospect that people from all walks of life will cooperate to maintain the diversity of biological species and increase the enthusiasm to protect tropical plant species

• The collection size reaches 10,000 taxa
• KBCC hosted the third Directors’ Meeting of Southeast Asia Botanic Gardens (SEABG) Network, with attendees from 14 countries taking part in activities
• Staff at KBCC assisted the educational activities of Scientific American (Taiwanese Edition)
• Visitors coming:
  Siew Wan-chang , former Vice-President of Republic of China (Taiwan)
  Dr. Peter H. Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  Dr. Barbara A. Schaal, consultant of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in USA
  Yan Shen, the Academician of Chinese Academy of Science
  Kunming Institute of Botany and Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  Taiwan Banana Research Institute

• The first International Fern Training Course was hosted at KBCC
• Participation and exhibition in the Future Pavilion of the 2010 Taipei International Flora exposition
• Visitors:
  Liu Chao-shiuan, Former Premier of the Republic of China
  Dr. Diana Percy and Dr. Quentin Cronk, University of British Columbia
  Dr. Carlos Fighetti, former president of The American Orchid Society
  Institute Of Botany,The Chinese Academy Of Sciences
  Xiamen Botanical Garden
  Michael Moller, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  Klaus Mehlheter, Mexican fern ecologist
  Dr Mohd Yusoff bin Abdullah, Director Strategic Resource Research Center Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI)

• Plant source and management technology exchange with the Fairylake Botanical Garden and the Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden
• Visitors coming:
  South China Botanical Garden, Lushan Botanical Garden, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, and Beijing Botanical Garden
  Dr. Mark Hughes, tropical Botanist in Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  Dr. Robert Cubey, faculty Member in Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  Vice Mayor of Shanghai
  All-China Women's Federation
  Chinese Acadamy of Science of Fairylake Botanical Garden, South China Botanical Garden, Lushan Botanical Garden, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, and Beijing Botanical Garden
  Dr. Craig Martin, professor of Ecological Plant Physiology in Kansas University
  Dr. Alice Preire Pieiro, Academy of Natural Science, USA

• The collection size reaches 20,000 taxa
• The launching of the Census and Classification of Plant Resources in the Solomon Islands project saw KBCC sign a cooperation agreement with the Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Council (TaiwanICDF), the National Museum of Natural Science and the Solomon Government
• Visitors coming:
  Dr. Thomas B. Croat, Missouri Botanical Garden
  Dr. Craig Martin, Professor of Ecological Plant Physiology in Kansas University
  Benito C. Tan, Department of Biological Science, National University of Singapore

• The pheasant bird and turtle breeding programs begin at KBCC
• Collaboration with the National Museum of Natural Science and the ICDF to organize a "Workshop on the Conservation of Biodiversity and Plant Resources"

• Dr. Cecillia Koo Botanic Conservation Center Concert: A dialogue between music and tropical plants
• KBCC signed a cooperation agreement with Fairylake Botanical Garden, Shenzen, China
• KBCC collaborated with the National Museum of Natural Science and the ICDF to organize a second "Workshop on the Conservation of Biodiversity and Plant Resources" in association with the Solomon Islands Project

• KBCC collaborated in co-organizing the International Begonia Symposium
• Visitors coming:
  KBCC hosted a visit from former President Ma Ying-jeou. He was guided by KBCC CEO Dr. Chia Wei Li and accompanied chairman Mr. Leslie Koo Cheng Yun

• KBCC collaborated with the National Tsing Hua University, the National Museum of Natural Science and the National Chung Hsing University, planning the "Future Earth Ecology Program"
• In August, the collection accessions exceeded 30,000 taxa
• KBCC hosted the Southeast Asia Botanic Garden (SEABG) Network for a ‘Consultation workshop on cost-effective and sustainable ex situ conservation techniques for woody, exceptional species native to the Southeast Asia Region’
• KBCC and Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden, Laos signed a memorandum of cooperation
• An agreement with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) of the Philippines was started on the preservation of the genus Azolla

• The "100 Species Conservation" and cryopreservation programs begin
• A Memorandum of Understanding on the conservation of ferns was signed with The Taitung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station (TTDARES) of the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan
• The Taiwan Cement Company and KBCC were awarded a ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ Award in the environmental category by Vision Magazine
• KBCC collaborated with the National Tsing Hua University, the National Museum of Natural Science and the National Chung Hsing University, planning the "Future Earth Ecology Program II"
• Discussions begin with the World Orchid Association for the 2020 World Orchid Conference to be hosted in Taiwan
• The National Geographic Channel begins filming and interviews for a program dedicated to the work of KBCC in the Solomon Islands

• The ‘Botanical inventory, research and conservation of the flora of Lang Biang Plateau, Vietnam’ project is launched with an MOU signing between partners
• The ‘Pteridophyte Reproductive Biology: Multidisciplinary Approaches’ workshop was hosted at KBCC in association with the 7th Asian Symposium of Ferns and Lycophytes
• KBCC joined the 2018 Taichung World Flora Exposition, contributing 1000 species to a major display on local and international plant conservation
• The ‘Taiwan Plant Conservation Symposium’ was co-organized by KBCC and BGCI and hosted at National Tsing Hua University
• KBCC joined the Education Bureau of the Taichung City Government to present to students and teachers on threatened Taichung species, Clematis sinensis var. tatushanensis and promote environmental protection and plant conservation in the county