Public administration scholars had long been proposing various solutions to the problem of overlap between the central and provincial governments. Some suggested dividing the province into several separate zones with fairly equal areas and populations. Many argued all along that the provincial government should be stripped of all real power or abolished outright.
有關中央與台灣省政府行政區域重疊的問題，一直有公共行政學者提出種種的解套措施，例如重新劃分行政區，如「一省多市」、「多省制」等，其中省要不要「虛級化」或乾脆廢掉是爭議重心。