He saw that Vietnam, Burma, Laos and Cambodia had no national botanical gardens, and they were all experiencing headaches from shortages in research funding. Li, who believes that Taiwan should play an active unifying role in collecting and conserving tropical plants, moved that they hold the next conference in Taiwan.
他看到越、緬、寮、柬等國都沒有國家級植物園，且幾乎所有國家都為了研究經費短絀而苦惱，李家維認為，台灣應該在熱帶植物的收藏與保種上扮演統合的積極角色，便提議由台灣舉辦下屆會議。