Nonetheless, the results from the first year of the competition were better than expected. Not only did the people of Taipei react warmly, but when the cut-off date for soliciting poems for the second year had expired, some 2000 foreign workers had entered the competition-a ten-fold increase!
但第一年的效果就超過預期，不但台北市民迴響熱烈，今年第二屆所收到的詩作更暴增十倍，高達二千多人參賽。