Although funding was still hard to come by this year, one improvement was that foreign groups had grown to see the event not as a commercial opportunity but an artistic exchange. Unlike the first event, when the organizer had to pay the foreign groups for their performance, all the groups asked for only lodging this year.
For that, they are required to be the audience of other participants' shows. Also, all the groups will perform at least one number composed by Taiwanese composers this year, which are all previously unreleased works.
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