Veteran publisher Charles H.C. Kao, winner of a special contribution award, stated in an interview that the cultural industry is an indicator of a country's virtue or vice. The real success of a country depends not on how many personal computers it exports, but on whether its cultural industry is flourishing and plays to an international audience.
獲得今年「特別貢獻獎」的資深出版人高希均在接受訪問時就表示，文化產業是衡量一個國家良窳的指標，一個國家的強盛與否不是個人電腦外銷有多少，而是在於他的文化產業發展是否興盛，有沒有躍上國際舞台？