When she established E. Excel in 1987, it was at first purely a research organization. Two years later the company began to manufacture products, "mainly because we wanted to use sales to stabilize funding for research," says Chen. She emphasizes, "I have always placed the greatest importance on education and research."
她於一九八七年成立丞燕公司，一開始是純研究機構，兩年後開始製作產品，「最主要是想利用銷售網路使研究資金有著落」，可是她強調，「教育和研究才是我的重心。」