In 1988 Chang began to move his investments overseas from Taiwan, setting up manufacturing in China, Vietnam and Indonesia. In the Guangzhou area alone he had over a dozen contract shoe factories with over 30,000 staff producing international brand sports shoes.
張榮梧在 1988 年從台灣轉到海外投資，產業佈局遍佈中國、越南、印尼，光是在廣州地區就有十幾間代理生產國際品牌運動鞋的鞋廠，員工超過 3 萬人。