Eight years later, Taiwan's bicycle exports surpassed 3 million units, and the island overtook Japan as the leading supplier of cycles to the world. By then Giant was already Taiwan's biggest bike assembly plant, second in Asia only to Bridgestone of Japan (then known as Ishibashi).
8 年後，台灣自行車年出口量突破 300 萬台，取代日本成為世界最大的自行車產地，當時的巨大也已是台灣最大的自行車組裝廠，在亞洲的地位僅次於日本的石橋（Bridgestone，即現在的普利司通）。