With few competitors, high profit margins, low wages, and high-speed machine embroidery techniques, the business that Zhou and his wife started up grew into a full-blown family enterprise that was eventually joined by eldest son Zhou Zhiyun and his wife Que Shumei. But just as everything was going swimmingly, disaster struck.
由於競爭少、利潤高，加上工資低、車繡速度快，不僅周國欽夫妻全力投入，長子周至雲和媳婦闕淑美也承繼家業。