"Taiwan no longer holds the advantage in cross-strait competition," says Taipei City education director Wu Ching-chi. He recounts that two years ago, when he visited an elementary school attached to East China Normal University in Shanghai, he saw mainland teachers teaching lessons in English; and at Tianyi Middle School near Wuxi in Jiangsu Province he saw teachers and students of a third-year gifted children's class conversing entirely in English.
「兩岸競爭中，台灣的優勢不再，」台北市教育局長吳清基也指出，兩年前他在大陸華東師範大學附小看到大陸老師用英語授課；無錫地區天一中學三年級的「超常班」，老師與學生都用英語交談。