On the afternoon of March 21 this year, Guo Taiming personally promoted the first batch of 600 boxes of swallow -nest Bavers (guava) from Kaohsiung in Foxconn's factory in Foxconn.(Hong Kong Zhongtong News Agency)
(Bangkok -Taipei Bloomberg) Guo Taiming, the founder of Hon Hai Group, who intends to run for the president of Taiwan, has the lowest net assets to the lowest in more than six years.
His listed companies include Hon Hai, Fuzhi Kang Group, and Japan Sharp, with a wealth of about $ 4.5 billion (S $ 6.1 billion). According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, it is currently ranked third in Taiwan.The first two were Yin Yanliang of the Chairman of the Middle Wangwang Want and Runtai Group. Their assets were US $ 6.1 billion and $ 4.8 billion, respectively.
In June 2017, Guo Taiming's wealth was as high as US $ 7.3 billion. In April 2018, he was still the richest man in Taiwan.Due to market concerns, the iPhone demand was poor and the Sino -US trade war continued to fight, resulting in his company's stock price began to fall.Guo Taiming announced on Wednesday that he intends to run for the 2020 presidential election, and Hon Hai's stock price rose more than 21%in April.
Borrowing from the crew borrowed money from his mother to start a business
The 68 -year -old Guo Taiming knows in Taiwan's women and children. His factories have hired more than 1 million people in mainland China, and hundreds of thousands of people are hired elsewhere around the world, distributed in the United States, Czech Republic, Brazil and other countries.Almost every household in developed countries has products assembled by Hon Hai, including most iPhones and dozens of devices of Apple's iPhone and other brands.If you have Sony PlayStation 4 or Amazon Kindle, it is likely to be a factory from His Majesty Guo Taiming.
Guo Taiming, who used to be a crew, at the age of 23 (1974), with the 7,500 US dollars borrowed from his mother, he seized the opportunity to drive the export -driven economic prosperity of Taiwan and purchased plastic molding machines to produce black and white TV manufacturers in Europe and the United States.Channel knobs created a $ 41 billion corporate empire today.In order to fight for more business, he spent 11 months to visit the United States in the early 1980s and went directly to visit some companies.
Treating employees is severe and generous
With the reform and opening up of mainland China, Guo Taiming has a greater place for use in combination with the ability of the United States and the cheap labor force in Asia.When many Taiwanese manufacturers were hesitant to be westward, Guo established his first mainland factory in Shenzhen in 1988, and gradually became one of China's largest private employers.His factory is like a small city with dormitories, canteens, clinics and entertainment venues.At first he chose the area near Hong Kong, and then began to bloom everywhere, including his ancestral homeland Shanxi Province.
In 2010, more than a dozen employees of the Foxconn plant committed suicide, which made people question the company's blindly pursuing cost reduction and improving efficiency. Guo Taiming slowly realized the seriousness of the problem.In the interview that year, he said: The first, second, and third, I did not treat it as a serious problem, we had about 800,000 employees.At this moment I feel guilty, but I didn't think I should bear all my responsibility at that time.
As the boss of the three brothers, Guo Taiming was both severe and generous.A former executive of Hon Hai revealed that at a meeting where hundreds of people attended, Guo punished the other party for 10 minutes because he was dissatisfied with the answer to an executive.He often drives for a few hours, and the personal assistant needs to be on his life 7 days and 24 hours a day.On the other hand, he often rewards executives and employees at his own pocket, and the funds come from the redness of the company's shares held by his trust fund.
Guo Taiming took the lead in responding to the call of US President Trump on increasing investment in the US manufacturing industry to build a factory hired 13,000 people in Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in exchange for more than $ 4.5 billion in government awards.However, this project has been criticized, because the wage level is low, the employee suddenly fired, the environment is noisy, and the goals are constantly changing.Hon Hai said the factory will start producing LCD displays as scheduled as scheduled.
How to balance cross -strait politics and business attraction
Guo Taiming's father fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai -shek in 1949. He is currently seeking to be nominated for the Kuomintang as presidential candidates and says that his core values are peace, stability, economy, and future.Wu Yushan, a researcher at the Political Research Institute of the Central Research Institute, said: For the Kuomintang supporters, there is no better candidate than Guo Taiming, because he has a good relationship with the leaders of China and the United States.
Guo Taiming is also one of the largest philanthropists in Taiwan. His first wife died of breast cancer in 2005, and his brother Guo Taicheng died of leukemia in 2007.He then donated a lot of wealth for cancer treatment research. Last year, he opened a new oncology hospital in Taipei.
The question is: On the one hand, Guo Taiming has invested in the mainland and made decades of dollars, and on the other hand, he is eager to take charge of the Taiwan regime. How can he get a balance?
The DPP legislator Wang Dingyu quoted the Bible and said: Where is your treasure, and your heart is there. When Guo Dong wants to become a Taiwan leader, his wealth is (Chinese President) ... in his hands.I think 23 million Taiwanese will worry about this.
