tion review applications for both project grants and operation grants, and also set-up annual awards for outstanding performance in arts field. To this date, although the Foundation is still young and there are things on structure or procedures needed to be adjusted or improved, overall the arts community in Taiwan is still very pleased to see its establishment and operation. After all the Foundation is operated systematically and transparent. It is not usually seen in Taiwan for a sort of government affiliated organization. As for on the municipal level, Taipei City and Kaohsiung City, they manage their policies. These two cities were on the equivalent level as the former Provincial governments because of the large population live and work in their jurisdictions. They have their own department of managing the arts and cultural activities in their cities, especially Taipei City, where about one fourth of Taiwanese population is. The policy of Taipei City has tremendous impacts on the overall Taiwan. For other counties and municipalities the arts policies are more or less the extension of the from of the central government, or a means of attracting tourism....
