During his first inaugural speech in 2000, he said, "In the area of government reforms, we need to establish a government that is clean, efficient, far-sighted, dynamic, highly flexible and responsive, in order to ensure Taiwan's competitiveness in the face of increasingly fierce global competition.
2000 年 5 月 20 日，總統在首度就職演說時就指出，為了面對日益激烈的全球化競爭，確保台灣的競爭力，必須要建立一個有活力、有高度彈性和應變力的新政府。