"Of course we are improving year by year," smiles Hsu Yu-pu, deputy director general of the Central Personnel Administration (CPA). In 1967 when the CPA was first set up, no more than 30 percent of civil servants had university or college degrees, while even in 1975 when the Ten Major Projects were instituted the number only reached 45 percent.
「當然這是逐年進步的」，人事行政局副局長許毓圃笑著表示，在民國五十六年人事行政局剛成立時，大專以上程度的公務員還不到總數的百分之卅；即使是民國六十四年十大建設時，也只佔百分之四十五。