1935年，田輟學從商，建立茶陽瓷土公司，成為越南最大嘅瓷土供應商。1939年，日本佔領汕頭，佢轉去印尼從事樹膠工業。1958年，為咗避印尼排華，又想俾細路接受中華文化，佢舉家移居香港。創立「田氏塑膠廠」，後成立「田氏化工」，專生產塑膠薄膜同人造皮革。1990年後，先後喺廣東東莞同廣州設廠。
In 1935, Tian dropped out of school to enter business and established the Cha Duong Porcelain Clay Company, which became the largest supplier of porcelain clay in Viet Nam. In 1939, when Japan occupied Shantou, he moved to Indonesia to work in the gum industry. In 1958, in order to avoid Indonesia's exclusion of Chinese and to let his children accept Chinese culture, he moved his family to Hong Kong. Founded "Tianshi Plastic Factory" and later "Tianshi Chemical", specializing in the production of plastic film and artificial leather. After 1990, it successively set up factories in Dongguan, Guangdong and Guangzhou.