Chinese Maritime Institute
Chinese Maritime Institute also called China Maritime Institute (CMI) was founded on July 11, 1962, and it is a non-profit institute based in the Taipei City, Taiwan. CMI's main mission is to promote and to engage in academic research on maritime and aviation research and to co-fund the publication of Maritime Quarterly journal in Taiwan. The founding chairman of CMI is the late Professor Kuang Wang. The late Professor Kuang Wang was a leading academic researcher and god father on maritime domain in both China and Taiwan. CMI together with CMRI (Chinese Maritime Research Institutes)[1] is one of the major maritime research organizations in Taiwan. The permanent president of honour for CMI is Prof. Kuan Lin who is also the founder of one of the largest logistics companies, Pacific Star Group, in Taiwan. Dr. Kuan Lin together with his wife, Ms. Ivy Wang, donated a six storey building, the Ivy Hall, to the National Taiwan Ocean University in 2011. Current chairman of the CMI is Professor C.C. Chang[2] of the National Taiwan Ocean University. Professor C.C. Chang was also the deputy president of the National Taiwan Ocean University between May 2011 and July 2012. The 17th Board members of CMI will held their posts for three years from May 27, 2011 until May 26, 2014.
CMI has established a late Prof. Kuang Wang Scholarship Commission to support students to study in the four major maritime universities and colleges in Taiwan, including National Taiwan Ocean University, National Kaohsiung Marine University, KaiNan University, and Taipei College of Maritime Technology.
Readers can find 28 of 57 late Professor Kuang Wang's published books from the China Maritime Institute's website. The official website of Chinese Maritime Institute is.[3]
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