Within three years, price advantage combined with the warrior-ant like power of the "Taiwanese-style SME" (small or medium enterprise), turned Johnson into the world's largest supplier of weightlifting equipment, accounting for half the global market.
民國 67 年（1978）中共文革結束後，新總理鄧小平實行經濟開放政策，大陸遂以世界工廠姿態在全球崛起，並以低價策略四出搶單。