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PCG joins the Filipino nation in celebrating the 2025 National Literature Month

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The Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai joins the Filipino nation in celebrating the 2025 National Literature Month (NLM) this April, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 968 of 15 February 2015.

This year’s NLM theme is "SIKAD Panitikan: Kultura at Panitikan ng Kaunlaran". According to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Sikad, a Cebuano term that means to kick, also communicates a sense of energy and highlights the continuing enthusiasm, significant action, and meaningful reflection of the nation's literature. The overall theme will once again open the door for our nation to express its culture through literature, discover innovative methods, ideas, and literary expressions through the new generation of writers in the field of literature, and highlight various folk arts and traditional practices that form part of the foundations by which literature is explained to the community.

The NLM is an annual celebration spearheaded by the NCCA, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino and the National Book Development Board, to promote Philippine literature, its history, and cultural legacy.

Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai held lecture on fire safety and fire drill

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SHANGHAI, 02 April 2025 – To ensure that the consulate general personnel are aware of the office and building’s entry and exit points and are prepared in case of fire emergencies, a lecture on fire safety and a fire drill simulation was conducted last 31 March 2025 at the consulate premise. The proper handling of a fire extinguisher was also demonstrated.

firesafety2 The lecture was conducted by CBRE, the Metrobank Plaza building property management, and was attended by both organic and local hires of the Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai and attached agencies - Philippine Department of Tourism Office and Philippine Trade and Investment Center.

The activity was also held in observance of Fire Prevention Month, which is March of every year in the Philippines. END

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New PDOT Shanghai Tourism Attaché calls on Acting Head of Post

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SHANGHAI, 02 April 2025 – Newly arrived Philippine Department of Tourism Office, Shanghai (PDOT-Shanghai) Tourism Attaché Francisco Hilario M. Lardizabal called on Acting Head of Office Consul John Francis S. Herrera, initiating dialogue and outlining his overall plans and strategies to create the tourism pull needed to draw more Chinese toursits to the Philippines.

Tourism Attaché Lardizabal noted the great potential that the Chinese market has to boost tourism arrivals and is particularly keen on tapping the millenial and Gen Z crowd in China, who form an untapped sweetspot, possessing the spending power and wanderlust.

Consul Herrera assured Tourism Attaché Lardizabal Post’s usual continued cooperation and assistance in supporting the initiatives and activities of PDOT-Shanghai in promoting Philippine tourism. END

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Pinoy Teachers Association in Shanghai installs new set of officers

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SHANGHAI, 30 March 2025 – The Pinoy Teachers Association in Shanghai (PITAS) held their turn-over ceremony and oath-taking of its new set of officers at the Sinan Mansions, Shanghai on 30 March 2025, attended by PITAS members and guest community leaders representing other Filipino organization in Shanghai.

Forming the core of the new PITAS leadership, Chairperson Mr. Agrix Neri Go, Internal Vice Chairperson Mr. Harold Valencia, External Vice Chairperson Ms. Rhaziel Dominica Pesebre and Secretary Ms. Ann Viviene Gumangan, were sworn in by Acting Head of Post Consul John Francis S. Herrera, together with the complete roster of new PITAS officers, including those who joined online.

PITAS founder Mr. Richard “Rusty” Anota thanked the Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai for providing the inspiration to establish the educators’ organization pitas2 back in 2019 through the encouragement of then Consul General Wilfredo R. Cuyugan. PITAS has since grown into a dynamic and highly regarded Filipino organization in Shanghai, representing the common goals and interests of its member educators.

Outgoing Chairperson Chabeli Jill Hilasque, who served as PITAS chairperson since September 2021, congratulated the new set of officers and expressed her confidence and conviction that PITAS will remain a guiding force in representing Filipinos as trusted providers of quality education in China. END