Taking the high-speed railway for example, more than half the expense will be for civil engineering work along the track lines, with a budget of NT $ 230billion. Looking at the entire domestic construction industry, the two largest firms in Taiwan each do no more than NT $ 30 billion in business per year, while other firms are of even lesser scale.
僅以高鐵為例，超過半數的經費會用於沿路線的土木工程，預算是兩千三百多億台幣，而綜觀國內營造廠，最大的榮工處和中華工程公司都不過一年三百多億營業額，其他的就更稱不上什麼規模了。