Woodcarving culture
Yulon Motor supports the development of woodcarving culture with all efforts, so we input resources to host the“ Yulon Woodcarving Innovation Award” every year. It has been held 17 times since 1997, and we wish to attract woodcarving creators from all over the country with the huge number of prizes, thereby revitalizing the woodcarving industry and the local Sanyi community. Since 2014, we have worked with the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Miaoli County Government to integrate resources by transferring the budget for hosting the“ Yulon Woodcarving Innovation Award” in an amount of NT$2 million per year to sponsoring the“ Taiwan International Competition of Wood Sculpture.” At the same time, we have also offered NT$300,000 for each winner of the“ Yulon Woodcarving Heritage Award” and the“ Yulon Woodcarving Innovation Award” to encourage outstanding creators and bring the woodcarving art and culture in Sanyi to an international level.
I n a d d i t i o n to s p o n s o r s h i p i n t h e w o o d ca r v i n g competitions, Yulon Motor has set aside special budget to support Sanyi Senior High School in the development of a woodcarving club and relevant courses since 2016. Until now, we have sponsored over NT$300,000 and trained over 100 persons in total. Moreover, in 2021, we started to organize the“ Yulon Woodcarving Experience Camp,” for which we hired professional woodcarving instructors to teach students in Sanyi for free in the hope of passing down the woodcarving art and culture and train new woodcarving talents. We held the same event in 2022.
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Taiwan International Wood Sculpture Competition
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Wood materials for the Sanyi Woodcarving Art Festival as installation art
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Woodcarving Experience Camp
Scholarship program
In order to encourages the students in Miaoli and Sanyi Township, where the Company is located, to study hard, we have set up the“ Yulon Sanyi Scholarship” and the“ Yulon Motor Youth Empowerment Scholarship” to reward and support elementary school and junior high school students in Sanyi Township, and high school/vocational high school students in Miaoli County who are enrolled in designated schools in automobile-related disciplines. In 2022, we granted a total of NT$850,000 scholarship to 388 students.
Sponsoring the basketball team
Yulon Motor founded the basketball team in 1965 in the hope of promoting basketball and sports for all in Taiwan and in the meantime training and electing basketball talents for the country through such a sponsorship. In 2022, Yulon Motor sponsored Yulon’s basketball team a total of NT$21.6 million. We also offer the most people-oriented support and placement in players’ career development. After they retire, they can work either as basketball trainers or in other positions arranged based on their personal will and interests.
Promoting automotive craftsmanship and training talents for the industry
For increasing the R&D capacity of the automotive industry and ensuring the quality and supply of talents in the industry, we conducted an evaluation on the society in Sanyi Township, Miaoli, where our main operations locate, and built a development plan catering for the local demands while engaging in the industry–academia cooperation program (please refer to Development and Training of Talents ) and the scholarship program so as to expand the talent pool of the automotive industry.
Yulon Children's Basketball Summer Camp
Yulon provides recreational activities for the children of employees, surrounding schools, and community children, with players from the Yulon Luxgen Basketball Team serving as coaches to personally teach basketball skills. In 2023, to celebrate the Yulon Luxgen Basketball Team's victory in the SBL Championship in May and the 70th anniversary of the Yulon Group's establishment, the camp was specially expanded to be held at the San Yi plant area and the Yulon Group's New Taipei headquarters.
Evaluation on the automotive industry and talents in the society
The gap between the industry and the academia:
Yulon Motor connects with various academic institutions within the network of Yen Tjing Ling Industrial Development Foundation to carry out regular industry–academia cooperation R&D projects and provide students with the internship opportunities so as to bring school education closer to real practices and address the education-practice gap.
The demand for talents:
The automotive industry is a technology- and capital-intensive industry with a gigantic industry chain and involves a wide array of related industries, so a comprehensive automotive industry requires a large number and diverse technical talents in R&D, manufacturing, sourcing, marketing, management, and maintenance and repair.
We have also established the first tourism factory of the automotive industry in Taiwan,“ Yulon Experience Center,” in which the general public is able to have a better understanding about automotive craftsmanship through the activities, tour and experience offered, to convey the craftsmanship, innovative image of the brand and car manufacturing technology. Since the launch of the project in 2018, we have invested NT$12,079,000 in the tourism factory in total, and in 2019, we started to donate 10% of the quarterly revenue of the tourism factory to disadvantaged organizations. As of 2022, we have donated NT$200,000 in total. In addition to promoting education in automotive industry, we also help disadvantaged groups and grow our positive influence on society.
In addition to establishing the experience center open for the public visitors internally, we also support students in R&D and competitions of the industry, e.g. students of the NCKU Formula Racing and the Taiwan Tech Racing who are highly passionate about EVs, keep improving the EV racing cars for higher performance and speed. With the R&D energy from the academia side, we are able to cultivate outstanding people in the industry and drive the EV bloom.
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NCKU Formula Racing
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NCKU Formula Racing
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Taiwan Tech Racing
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Taiwan Tech Racing
