The Taiwanese hand-puppet has been voted by the public as the image that would represent Taiwan to the world, after a campaign that began last December.
While the final results won't be officially announced until next Thursday in a presentation at the Presidential Office, the vote counts were made public on the campaign's Web site on Thursday.
The statistics on the Web site showed that 531,936 participants took part in the campaign and 130,285 of them decided the picture of the Taiwanese hand-puppet was their favorite. The runner-up, with 119,884 votes, was an image of Yushan (玉山), or Jade Mountain. The following three images were Taipei 101, with 55,495 votes; a picture of delicious Taiwanese dishes, with 18,073 votes; and a picture of the endangered Formosan Landlocked Salmon followed with 16,847 votes.
"The Government Information Office [GIO] will begin to randomly take advantage of these top five pictures as the images to represent Taiwan internationally from now on," a GIO official said.
The campaign of the images was carried out between Dec. 17 last year and Jan. 15. The GIO asked the public to choose between 24 different pictures to select an image to represent Taiwan internationally. Participants made their selections through phone calls, faxes or on the Web site.
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