Wu Yau-fong, director of the provincial government's Department of Personnel, points out that in August 1948 the Executive Yuan established an expanded provincial government in which the governor and various other high-ranking officials of the provincial government were appointed by the central government. This system of provincial government lasted until July 1994, when the Self-Governance Law for Provinces and Counties ushered in a brief four-year period of provincial self-governance.
省府人事處處長吳堯峰指出，三十七年八月，行政院核定「台灣省政府合署辦公施行細則」開始長達近四十年的「合署辦公」時期，一直到八十三年七月「省縣自治法」通過後，才開始到去年年底短暫四年的「自治省時期」。