By MOOK Scenic Spots Family Travel Life Network, reported by Chen Guanxin
The “Choose a Good Name Together” campaign for Taipei City Zoo’s panda cub has been open for voting since September 14 and, as of September 29, nearly 30,000 people have cast their votes. Today, the Taipei City Government’s Department of Information and Tourism and Taipei City Zoo jointly announced that they will add 50 VIP priority visit tickets for the panda cub as a thank-you bonus gift for voters, hoping to attract more netizens to join the voting before the campaign ends on October 15.
The cute “Yuan Zai” naming campaign will give out 50 VIP tickets, offering the chance to visit Yuan Zai early. (Image source / Courtesy of Taipei City Zoo official website)
The Department of Information and Tourism stated that among the six candidate names selected in the preliminary round for the panda cub’s “Choose a Good Name Together” campaign — “Pink Tuan,” “Soup Tuan,” “Yuan Zai,” “Yuan Zai Hua,” “Yuan Bao,” and “Reunion” — “Yuan Zai” currently has the highest number of votes, accounting for over 65% of all votes. The second-ranked name “Yuan Bao” has approximately a 20% vote share, followed by “Yuan Zai Hua,” “Pink Tuan,” “Reunion,” and “Soup Tuan.”
The zoo expressed that, in appreciation of netizens’ love for the panda cub and support for the naming campaign, in addition to the original 45 “naming campaign prize packages” — each including one panda cub sticky note, one postcard, one EasyCard sticker, and one fan as a stationery set — 50 VIP priority visit tickets for the panda cub are now being added as a thank-you bonus. Each VIP ticket allows two people to visit the panda cub and receive a box of panda-patterned pancakes. The visit date is tentatively scheduled for January of the Year 103 (2014) during the zoo’s gratitude evening, prior to the official public opening. However, the exact date is not yet confirmed due to the panda cub’s growth status, but all winners will be notified at least one month in advance. For more details, please visit the campaign’s official website: www.taipeitravel.net/panda.
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So far, the new name voting campaign still has “Yuan Zai” leading in votes. (Image source / Courtesy of Taipei City Zoo official website)