IFEA World Festival and Event City Award 2017 New Taipei City Contents Mayor’s Message 3 Introduction 4 Section 1 5 Community Overview Section 2 16 Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Governmental Support of Community Festivals and Events Community Overview Community Festivals and Events Festivals Section 3 52 Governmental Support of Festivals Section 4 61 Non-governmental Community Support of Festivals and Events Section 5 69 Leveraging “Community Capital” Created by Festivals and Events Section 6 81 What Lies Ahead Section 4 Section 5 Section 6 Appendix 83 Non-governmental Community Leveraging “Community Capital” What Lies Ahead Support of Festivals and Events Created by Festivals and Events Supporting Materials As a citizen of New Taipei City Every year, an average of 12,000 In 2016, the festival and behalf of the New Taipei marathon enthusiasts demonstrated 5,239 square Mayor’s Message City Government, I am pleased participates and competes meters projection mapping on Mayor’s Message to support New Taipei City’s among many top international New Taipei City Hall which submission for a 2017 IFEA runners. The Sky Lantern became the largest projection World Festival and Event City Festival in Pingxi District has mapping in Taiwan and Award. held for 18 years, attracting over attracted more than 3,000,000 300,000 attendance around the attendance. The world famous New Taipei City government time of the Lantern Festival. As magazine “Harper’s Bazaar” and non-governmental thousands of sky lanterns named the festival as “The communities hold all kinds of ascend into the dark sky, they world’s most amazing festivals and events every year, carry the blessings of people to Christmas tree.” such as sports, religions, music the heavens. This festival was and other categories of chosen by Discovery Channel as It is a great honor to showcase activities that attract many the "second biggest New Year's our spectacular city to current tourists. In 2016, more than Eve celebration in the world" in visitors and potential tourists. Dr. Eric Liluan Chu 45,483,000 attendance came to 2008, "one of the 52 things to do New Taipei City still has lots of New Taipei City Mayor our city, and nearly 23% of them in 2013” by CNN Travel, and exciting festivals and events were from overseas. “one of the world's 15 festivals waiting for you to experience to attend before you die” in our hospitality. I In the relevant festivals and 2016 by Fodor’s festival. wholeheartedly recommend events, Wan Jin Shi Marathon is New Taipei City not only for its Taiwan’s only race accredited Christmas Land in New Taipei charming festivals and events with an International City Citizens Square organized but also for its passion Association of Athletics every year is also a hot spot for preserving diverse cultures. Federations (IAAF) Label. citizens and tourists to visit during the show time. 3 Introduction Situated in the northern part of Taiwan, In addition to developing, our city is on colonial, Japanese, Southern Fujianese, surrounding the country’s capital; New its way to preserving traditional culture. and native Taiwanese cultural and Taipei City has an estimated population New Taipei City still has a variety of architectural attractions, is a must visit of over 3.9 million and an area of 2052 histories industries like pottery industry location for all visitors to the Taipei area. square kilometers. Given its location in Yingge, glass industry in Tamsui, Drum advantages, today’s New Taipei City is a Arts in Xinzhuang, and blue dyeing Highly valued as a multicultural society, major city of Business Industries, with artifact in Sanxia. the city continues embracing traditional over 250,000 privately owned companies as well as foreign festivals and and 20,000 factories. High technology, The picturesque natural landscape showcasing its passions for innovation service and tourism are all part of the makes New Taipei City abundant in and preservation. major industries in New Taipei City, tourism resource. The famous natural attracting a high volume of job forces parks, hot springs and the Northeast from all over the country with abundant Coast known for its beautiful mountain employment opportunities. and ocean view have attracted numerous tourists and taken their breath away. New Taipei City has been on a mission Other historical assets such as sky lantern to lay stress on the importance of raising heritage can also be found in New Taipei global competitiveness by working City. The Pingxi district is the only legal closely on industrial, cultural, tourism, area to light and release these lanterns. transportation and city developments. The city of Tours can trace its Therefore, the city is gradually roots back to foreign cultures. Tamsui transforming into an international city. district, home to a variety of western 4 Section1. Community Overview 5 3,982,268 The Current City Population* *The statistic is estimated in May, 2017 6 Numbers of City 1,952,622 Population Current Male Population 2,029,646 Current Female Population The most populous city in Taiwan 7 Primary District Capacity Festivals or Events Festival and Event Venues Citizens Square Banqiao 5,000 people Christmas land 115 Seats in Screening Banqiao Children's Art Festival Available Fuzhong 15 Room Xinzhuang International Drum Xinzhuang 7,125 Seats Stadium Art Festival 370 Seats in Screening Banqiao Children's Art Festival 435 art zone Room Xinzhuang Cultural International Drum Xinzhuang 645 Seats in Auditorium Arts Center Art Festival New Taipei City Arts Banqiao 737 Seats in Auditorium Children's Art Festival Center 8 With more telephone lines, wiring Hospital and operators, and centralized direction to avoid multiple commands, the Emergency department has the ability to answer over 811,000 calls every year. Response For citizen’s safety, the Fire Availability Department always endeavors to provide the best service. There are 4,336 medical institutions, 1,767 firefighters, and 118 ambulances in New Taipei City. With the aim of saving rescue time, the Fire Department reconstructed the Emergency and Rescue Command Center in 2013, which successfully reduces dispatch time from 84 sec to 39 sec, and becomes a more powerful command center than any other fire departments in Taiwan. 9 Public Transportation MRT Options The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) creates YouBike is a sub-system of the MRT convenient public transportation in New service. It provides commuters an Taipei City. MRT covers a distance of alternative option to commute between 60.66km, with 41 stations in the city. locations. It also allows commuters to rent Meanwhile, the new routes are under from one station and return at another. construction. The future plan about MRT EasyCard, major credit cards, and cell calls “ 3 rings and 3 lines “ system, and phones are all accepted as payment the aim is to cover most of the districts in methods for YouBike rentals, making it the the city. most convenient rental system in the world. Bus The number of monthly rentals in April, There are 598 bus routes in New Taipei 2017 was 2,085,640. As the rate of YouBike City, which covered almost every area in rentals increase, traffic congestion will the city. The convenient transportation decrease, and commuting around New makes it possible to narrow the gap Taipei will become more convenient and between urban and rural areas. pleasant. 10 Festival Shuttle Bus For fear of the congestion during Festival, and Gongliao Ho-hai-yan the festivals and events, the traffic Rock Festival. The shuttle bus will stop controls will be initiated within several at MRT or train stations to pick tourists up and drives them to the destination hours. To encourage citizens to take (so as the return road.) It can not only public transportations, New Taipei ease congestion problems but also City offers shuttle buses for free in attract visitors. festivals, such as Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival, Tong Blossom 11 Parking Availability Despite the fact that the public some parking facilities allow residents transportation in New Taipei City is to park free within 30 minutes. convenient, adequate parking spaces are still critical for our citizens. At present, there are 290 parking facilities that provide free parking New Taipei City has organized within 30 minutes in New Taipei City. 788,218 parking spaces, and earned 42,339,957USD parking fees in a year. To reconstruct old parking spaces and design co-construction station, there are still 17 government-owned public parking facilities under construction. For citizens who stay in one place for just a short of time—such as going to the bank, or applying for a document from government office— 12 Bicycle Lanes Let’s explore our city by bicycle! natural scenery, if the tourists keep riding, they will finally reach Tamsui Old Street. For the sake of utilizing riversides efficiently, Choose one exotic coffee shop, stay there New Taipei City built 9 main bicycle lanes for a while, and enjoy the magnificent which most of them are near the rivers. The sunset in Fisherman's Wharf. most popular spot is the Golden River Bank Bicycle Lane next to Tamsui River. In addition to bringing your bike, you can also choose to rent bicycles here. Just feel Along the Golden River Bank Bicycle Lane, free to take joy in our New Taipei City the tourists will have the chance to explore fascinating riverside views. Tamsui River Mangrove Wetland. Besides 13 Hotel The hotel number has been increasing in New Taipei City. In 2013, there were 236 hotels, 10,399 hotel rooms, 153 B&Bs, and 552 B&B rooms. By the time in 2017, there are 253 hotels, 12,225 hotel rooms, 220 B&Bs, and 763 B&B rooms in the city.