That idea, plus a sense of public service, and his diligent nature, were the ultimate cause of his death, "wrote Mao Chi-kuo, then a deputy minister of the MOTC, in a eulogy for Chiu.
這種信念加上他公而忘私、不捨晝夜的拚命三郎個性，最後竟致盡瘁於斯。」