Even as controversy raged over ideas like abolishing the provincial-level government and reforming the constitutional structure to redefine the roles of top executives (president and premier), the National Development Conference (NDC) --which has as its basic aim to achieve a broad consensus on issues of importance--opened on December 23,1996.
在廢省爭議、雙首長制憲政改革議題在媒體上沸沸湯湯吵嚷聲中，以求取全民對國家重大議題之共識為基調的國發會，於民國八十五年十二月二十三日正式開鑼。