At the end of 1993, while making his economic forecast for 1994, Wei Duan of the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics pointed out: "Because there will be the first-ever elections for the governor of Taiwan Province and for the mayors of Taipei and Kaohsiung, people will have a lot on their minds."
前一年年底做經濟預測時，「由於九四年有一個史無前例的省市長大選壓在那裡，每一個人心裡都沈甸甸的」，行政院主計處副主計長韋端指出。