That's when they came up with the call to "build the town with culture." Setting aside funds that had been donated to it by construction companies for local development, the town administration expanded the annual cultural budget to more than NT $ 1 million, and commissioned planning to Wang Jui-yu and implementation to Pan Ying-hu, both of them ethnomusicologists and members of the Taipei Folk Music Society.
汐止於是鮮明地打出「文化立鎮」標誌，並由鎮公所拿出房屋建商贊助的建設經費，把年度文化預算擴編為百餘萬元，委請「台北民族樂團」團員，也是民族音樂學者的王瑞裕策劃、潘英湖負責執行。