The response to the solicitation is overwhelming, and we have received a total of 277 designs for the International Forum on the Daodejing emblem in a short span of one month by the closing date. After careful study and comparison by the panel, the forum emblem is finally selected from the designs.

Design No.33 

The wining design for the Forum emblem comes from the work of Wang Zhi-tung, the staff from the editorial department of Military Unit of the Main Hospital of the Shenyang Military Region. In his design, he employed the?word "Dao" (Tao)?written by the famous calligrapher Wang Xianzhi as the main design element, and the overall design looked fully depicting the main theme of the forum to foster a harmonious world through Tao.

Design No.157?

Design No.78

Source: The Hong Kong Organizing Committee

(China.org.cn December 20, 2006)