"This isn't a case where we pay for a vegetable but make the vendor throw in an extra scallion as well," is the metaphor employed by Mao Chi-kuo, director-general of the Office of High Speed Rail in the MOTC. It is a case of us having a field, with the hope that our partners will come help us plant it so that we can harvest it together.
既是聯盟，講求的還是平等互惠原則，因此「這不是我們付錢買一顆菜、卻強行多要一根蔥」，交通部高速鐵路籌備處處長毛治國譬喻，而是我們有一塊園地，希望對方來一起耕耘，共享收成。