Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun vowed to facilitate Taiwan's community-building development at Taiwan's first-ever national community development conference on Dec. 1.
This year, there were a number of innovative changes to the Taiwan Literature Award, including the addition of three awards for newcomers to encourage more people to join the literary field.
Yeh Ching-yi, an 82-year-old woodcarving artisan from Kaohsiung, has been honored with the country's top crafts prize — the National Craft Achievement Award — for his lifetime accomplishments.
The Ministry of Culture gave out 126 contribution awards and 14 special awards to corporate sponsors and individual donors whose patronage of the arts exceeded a total of NT$2 billion this year.