Under the guidance of the Ministry of Culture, the Education Bureau of the New Taipei City Government, the Hualien County Government, the National Library, the National Library of Public Information, the National Taiwan Library, the Taiwan E-Book Association, and the GOGOFINDER cloud electronic publication platform jointly organized the "Eleventh International Chinese Language and Culture Program and Education Cup E-book Creation Competition." The winners of the competition were announced recently. The participating teams of STUST—from the Department of Leisure Business Management, the Department of Visual Communication Design, and the Department of Information Communication—stood out among many competing teams across the country and achieved outstanding results in College Group, Originality Group, Professional Group, and Thematic Project Contest. They were recognized and appreciated by professional reviewers from all walks of life across the country.

[A list of winners of STUST participating in the "Eleventh International Chinese E-book Creation Competition"]

This competition has entered its eleventh year, with a total of 13,729 participants from 78 schools. The 1059 entries gathered a total of 350,000 votes in the online voting of the competition. The results have become more and more impressive one year after another. The total number of participants and the volume of works have repeatedly reached new highs. It has received the attention and affirmation of the national publishing industry and the arts and literature circles. It has become the most large-scale and the most representative creation competition in the e-book publishing industry of Taiwan.

[A Poster of the 11th International Chinese Language and Education Cup E-book Creation Competition.]

The teams from the Department of Leisure Business Management, STUST, were guided by Prof. Zhi-Jing Yang, Ting-Yue Chang, and Hong-Yu Shih. They won third place in the "Internet Voting Popularity Award," fourth place and sixth place in the College Group, and five excellent work awards; in the Thematic Project Competition—Love for Taiwan, they also won second place, third place, and two excellent work awards. The team guided by Prof. Yu-Ching Shiao from the Department of Visual Communication won second place in the College Group and three excellent work wards, sixth place in the Original Group, and two excellence work awards in the Professional Group. The team guided by Prof. Dan-Ching Liang from the Department of Information and Communication won three excellence work awards in the College Group and first place in the Thematic Project Competition—Love for Taiwan. Altogether the three teams won fruitful results in the competition.

STUST has been continuously encouraging teachers of various departments to lead their students to actively participate in various competitions. By honing what they have learned in various competitions, gaining experience, and broadening their horizons, the students can compete in the fiercely competitive international arenas. In the e-book competition, they demonstrated extraordinary strength, proving that STUST students have the ability to keep pace with international competitors in various major competitions of innovations and industrial application technologies.

As Chair Hui-Ling Chen of the Department of Leisure Business Management pointed out, in recent years the Department of Leisure Business Management has actively guided students in developing creativity and practical skills, encouraging teachers to use their professional knowledge to help students participate in various competitions. As a result, students can not only accumulate the competence of students in planning and design from the competition process, but also close the distance between students and the industry.

Hong-Yuan Chen, Chair of the Department of Visual Communication Design, said that following the current changes due to the pandemic, the importance as well as the demand of learning e-book editing and design have become more obvious. Prof. Yu-Ching Shiao has allowed students to learn concepts for editing and design through text and image layout design courses. With the application of software and the attempt to add text writing, STUST also invited Assistant Professor Yu-Ching Huang from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University, to teach students about text thinking and conduct cross-field cooperation for the course. It is hoped that future students will continue to invest more in excellent design and present a diverse design style, so that readers can read more high-quality e-books.