Out of the US $ 303 billion budgeted for Taiwan's Six-Year National Development Plan, one third has been earmarked for improvements in communications and construction of the mass rapid transit railway system and, most surprisingly, around US $ 10.7 billion has been put aside for pollution control.
耗資八兆的中華民國六年國建計畫中，便有近三分之一經費，在改善交通，建造捷運系統；而在環保經費上，則將投下新台幣近三千億元。