These plans have a clear goal: to greatly reduce the scope of the provincial government after downsizing. Yet the grand justices of the Judicial Yuan have ruled that the provincial government will still have the "public corporate body" status of a local government. After downsizing, it will still have power to oversee county and city governments.
這些規劃皆指向一個目標：跟現在的省府相比，將來「省」的業務量將縮減許多，然而根據大法官解釋，省仍具有地方自治團體的「公法人」身份，精省後的「台灣省政府」仍具監督縣市政府的權力。