Looking back over the financial history of Taiwan, when the Nationalist government first moved to Taiwan, it experienced hyperinflation and financial collapse, during which paper currency became worthless. Perhaps as a result of this harsh lesson, from the 1950s to the 1990s, the government maintained a very conservative posture, and its finances were continually in a healthy state.
回顧我國財政史，或許是當年國民政府播遷來台前，因財政崩潰而導致金圓券貶值如廢紙的教訓過於慘烈，因此從民國四十年到八十年，在國民政府謹慎保守心態下，台灣的財政一直處於良好狀態。