With Taiwan now fully committed to democratization, with a directly elected president, and with the political reality being that the ROC government governs only Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu and the Pescadores, there is a great deal of overlap between the powers of the provincial government and those of the central government. This is obviously not beneficial to the nation's development in an era of global competition.
而當台灣全面走向民主化，總統經全民直選產生，務實政治下中華民國行政幅員即為今日的台澎金馬，台灣省政府的功能事權與中央重疊，顯然不利於全球競爭時代的國家發展，政府再造、組織精簡勢在必行。