Chiang, who was studying for his PhD in Japan at the time, was sent around the country making speeches to attract Japanese business. The most prominent success of the campaign was the establishment of a factory in the Taichung export processing zone by Canon, the Japanese manufacturer of optical products.
那時在日本攻讀博士的江丙坤，就奉命到各處去演講招商，其中最轟動的，就是成功引進日本光學大廠 CANON 到台中加工出口區設廠。