Taiwan had just been through the February 28th Incident, and according to history Professor Woody Cheng of Feng Chia University, the establishment of the provincial government signaled the normalization of Taiwan's governing entity.
當時台灣剛經過「二二八事件」，逢甲大學歷史教授鄭梓認為，「台灣省政府」之建制，可說是台灣由特別體制的統治型態，進入省政的正軌。