Zhang Shen-fu Third Director of Rotary International 345 Region Researcher of Chinese Rotary History Liu Jingheng Member of “Rotary” Monthly Publication Committee 1999-2003 October 1, 2013 Chang Shen-Fu “Sunny”, President of Rotary Club of Taipei (1957) -1958). A few years later, he was the second member of the club, serving as the Rotary International clerk—the third director of Rotary International 345 (1962-1963). The geographical area includes Taiwan Province of the Republic of China, Hong Kong, a British territory, and Portugal. Territory of Macau. At that time, Zhang Shenfu was the General Taxation Department of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Customs (1960-1964). Zhang Shenfu was the editor-in-chief of the Chinese quarterly “Rotary”. On March 29, 1959, representatives of 16 Rotary clubs from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Macau held the 7th Interport Conference in Zhongshan Hall, Taipei City, and decided to publish the Chinese Rotary Magazine. And designated Taipei News Agency Zhang Shenfu, Zhu Yitian, Hong Kong Eastern District Society Zhang Xianli and Kowloon Society Hari Harilela (Hari Harilela) to be responsible for the preparation. Zhang Shenfu was the convener and formed the “Rotary” quarterly editorial committee. On April 1, 1960, the first issue of “Rotary” quarterly was published. On July 1 of the same year, with the approval of Rotary International, the 345 district was established in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Kowloon and Macao. The first director (1960-1961) was Guo Keti of the Rotary Club of Taipei, and the second director (1961-1962) was Feng Bingfen of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong. Zhang Shenfu was born in Jiangdu County, Jiangsu Province in the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1908). In the eighteenth year of the Republic of China (1929), he graduated from Beiping Taxation College, and has worked in Zhenjiang, Wanxian, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xi’an, and Chongqing Customs. In 1945, after the Pacific War ended, he was ordered to take over customs affairs in Taiwan and served successively as the Tainan Customs and Taipei Customs Taxation Department. In 1952, he accepted the UN bonus and went to the United States and Canada to inspect customs administration and free trade zone operations. In 1960, he was promoted to the General Taxation Department of the Republic of China Customs, concurrently serving as a consultant to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the Executive Yuan, convener of the Processing Group of the Foreign Exchange Trade Committee, and a member of the Tourism Business Group of the Ministry of Transport. In 1963, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was transferred as an advisor to the Permanent Mission to the United Nations. In 1967, the Ministry of Communications was appointed as the general manager of the Republic of China Aviation Industry Development Center co-organized with the United Nations, and concurrently served as the executive secretary of the container transportation promotion team of the Ministry of Communications. Zhang Shenfu was the director general of the Four Sports Association of the Republic of China and the Badminton Association. In 1959, he organized the United Nations Technical Cooperation Association of the Republic of China and was elected as the chairman of the board.