Minister of Education Ovid Tzeng ignored his own Council and recommending that the Cabinet adopt Hanyu Pinyin as Taiwan's official romanization system, while leaving open the possibility of minor revisions. The Cabinet, noting the furious protests that Tzeng's decision elicited, subsequently instructed Tzeng to build a stronger consensus for one system or the other before putting forward a recommendation.
在中文譯音應與國際接軌或保持獨特性的爭議聲中，教育部長曾志朗又建請行政院採行「漢語拼音」，但未來可能參採通用拼音之精神，做小幅度修正。但因各界對此事意見紛紜，行政院仍請教育部尋求共識後再議。