Director of Shanghai City's Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhang Zhiqun, no stranger to cross-strait economics, offers an example. In the past, under the system of equal pay for any form of performance, the communist government carried all enterprises, regardless of their results, on its shoulders, offering subsidies if it could, asking everyone "to help each other out, because we're all in the same boat."
熟諳兩岸經濟的上海市台灣事務辦公室主任張志群舉例，以往在齊頭分配式的經濟體制下，不管個別企業的效益如何，中共政府都是一肩挑起，可以貼補就貼補，要求大家「同舟共濟、硬撐下去」。