The Pinghsi Sky Lantern Festival became one of the three major lantern festivals planned by the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. The Bureau specially created a commercial about Pinghsi's railway and lantern festival and aired it on various major Japanese television stations. The festival has now become one of Taiwan's most representative cultural festivals.
今天，平溪的天燈節更成為交通部觀光局規劃的台灣三大燈會之一，觀光局今年就特別以平溪的鐵道與天燈錄製一部廣告片，在日本各大電台播出，平溪的天燈節也成為台灣最具代表性的文化節慶之一了。