In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Wang Yongqing heard about it and immediately arranged for an assistant to donate.
At that time, Vanke decided to donate 1 million, and the assistant couldn't decide how much to donate, asking him: "Is it okay to donate 10 million?" ”
Wang Yongqing waved his hand and said: "How is 10 million enough, when such a big thing happens in the country, at least 100 million yuan must be donated." ”
Wang Yongqing is a famous rich man in Taiwan, with personal assets of nearly 100 billion yuan, a lifetime of donations of billions, and more than 4,000 Hope Primary Schools built in the mainland...
Fate is in your own hands
On January 18, 1917, Wang Yongqing was born in Taipei County, Taiwan Province, a place called "Lover's Valley", his grandfather Wang Tianquan was a village private school, he hoped that the eldest grandson would be able to have a successful career and a happy life in the future, so he gave him a resounding name: Yongqing.
It is said that after Wang Yongqing became famous, some people thought: "The lover's valley spirit people have good feng shui, so they came out of this enterprise giant." ”
This statement really does not stand up to scrutiny: There are many residents in Lover's Valley, so why does "Feng Shui" favor Wang Yongqing alone?
No matter what others thought of fate, Wang Yongqing never believed in fate in his life, nor did he count fate. He "did not believe in God, did not believe in ghosts, but only in his own arms and legs."
His explanation of fate is: "The innate environment is good or bad, not enough joy or sorrow, and the key to success lies entirely in one's own efforts." ”
The name Lover's Valley sounds very loud and romantic, but here there are many mountains and flat land, the products are not abundant, most of the people here rely on growing tea for a living, but there are seasonal restrictions on growing tea, and the income is not high.
When Wang Yongqing was 7 years old, his family still chose to send him to study, even if the school kept the tuition fee very low, but it was a huge burden for the Wang family.
Wang Yongqing was distressed by his family, he could only go barefoot to school, his school bag was also made of a coarse cloth towel, and the clothes he wore were also changed from flour bags.
After school, in order to reduce the burden on parents, planting vegetables, carrying water, collecting firewood, feeding pigs, washing and cooking, etc., all kinds of housework can be done.
Every morning, I get up early to fill the water tank at home with water, and after school, I have to carry a bag of 50 pounds of feed home to feed the pigs.
These heavy tasks are a very heavy burden for a seven- or eight-year-old child, but as the eldest son in the family, he has no hesitation in taking on this responsibility.
My grandfather once told him: "There is no way out of relying on tea for the industry, and I hope that your descendants will not rely on tea to survive." ”
Wang Yongqing understood the deep meaning of his grandfather's words, and he decided to leave his hometown, where he did not even have the opportunity to do hard work, and go outside to break in.
In 1931, Wang Yongqing came to a rice shop in Chiayi as an apprentice, located in central and southern Taiwan, with developed transportation and trade between the north and the south, and a thriving scene.
Wang Yongqing, who came out of the poor mountain ravine, was very satisfied with this job, not only could he eat enough, but he also had 4 yuan a month's salary, and he had always remembered the vow he made when he first came out: to let the whole family live a good life.
Wang Yongqing is diligent and earnest at work, and the boss loves him very much and does not hesitate to give him how to run the rice shop.
After a year of work, he asked his father to borrow 200 yuan in his hometown and opened a rice shop on his own.
However, due to limited capital, Wang Yongqing's rice shop can only be opened in alleys, and there are not many customers every day.
At that time, the rice was not as clean as it is today, and it was always mixed with debris such as small stones, and people always had to wash it over and over again before eating it, which was very inconvenient.
He picked up the miscellaneous items in the rice little by little, and then went door-to-door to sell it, and also carried out the business of delivering rice to the door.
His rice shop opens early and closes late, always 4 hours more than other stores, even if there are guests knocking on the door in the middle of the night, Wang Yongqing will be very enthusiastic to entertain.
In this way, Wang Yongqing's millet shop gradually opened up its local fame, and more and more people chose to buy rice at his home, sometimes even selling more than a dozen bags of rice a day.
After the business stabilized, Wang Yongqing began to think about other ways, rented a large house near the rice shop, and transformed it into a rice mill, and the business became bigger and bigger.
Just when Wang Yongqing began to think about how to expand the business next, a very unfortunate thing happened.
The Japanese implemented a system of material distribution in Taiwan and tightened control over grain, and Wang Yongqing's rice shops and mills were forced to close their doors.
Wang Yongqing is naturally unwilling to end up in such a business that he has painstakingly managed for a long time, but the situation is like this, and he really has no choice but to return to his hometown for the time being and wait for the right time to make a comeback.
In 1943, Wang Yongqing, who had rested in his hometown for two years, began to work in the timber business, and within two years, his timber business was also thriving.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Taiwan returned to the embrace of the motherland, and Wang Yongqing wanted to return to his old business and continue to open a rice shop, but after thinking about it, he finally gave up this idea and seized another opportunity to establish his own career kingdom.
A puzzlingly correct decision
When the timber industry seems to be in a good situation, more and more people are squeezing their heads to enter this industry, the competitive pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and Wang Yongqing smells a dangerous breath in advance.
After careful analysis, he decided to find another way to invest in other industries with potential for development.
After repeated investigations, Wang Yongqing felt that industry would definitely become the mainstream of future development.
He was indeed very far-sighted, and at that time, the Taiwan authorities were also preparing to fully develop industry, and launched a series of industrial development plans, including the most basic material in the petrochemical industry - polyvinyl chloride.
Wang Yongqing, 38, decisively accepted the industry that no one was optimistic about and invested his entire wealth.
At that time, there were very few people in Taiwan who understood the plastic thing, and there were only two workshop-style plastic processing factories in the whole taiwan province, and their model was very unified, importing plastic powder from Japan, and after processing in Taiwan, they were shipped to various small plastic products.
Wang Yongqing knows nothing about this industry, he is a layman, but he has the courage to study and is good at research, and he also knows how not to be ashamed to ask.
Knowing that he was going to enter an industry that he had never heard of, everyone around him advised him to be cautious and not impulsive.
However, Wang Yongqing politely refused the kindness of his friends, and without hesitation, embarked on the road of plastic production with unknown front road, and invested all his wealth to establish Taiwan Plastics Industry Co., Ltd.
Formosa Plastics officially put into production three years after its establishment, but soon encountered the biggest problem: all the products were backlogged in the warehouse and could not be sold.
The main reason is that the price is too high, there is no advantage in the international market, and local companies prefer to import.
Investors have asked for divestment after seeing this situation, and the products that have just opened cannot be sold, indicating that this thing cannot make money.
Wang Yongqing did not think so, and after calm analysis, he found a solution; Increase production in order to dilute costs, small profits and high sales, and Formosa Plastics must expand to secondary and tertiary processing products.
Shareholders are not satisfied with the current situation of Formosa Plastics, after hearing Wang Yongqing's plan is even more strongly opposed, the product can not be sold, not to say, but also want me to continue to invest money in?
Wang Yongqing could not stop these shareholders from withdrawing their capital, and could only cobble together the shares in their hands to buy a battle!
He increased the production capacity of the factory by 4 times, but the cost did not increase much, and after the price of the product fell, the sales volume did rise.
In 1958, in order to digest the 16 tons of PVC powder produced by Formosa Plastics every day, Wang Yongqing decided to set up a South Asia company to form a generation of middle and lower reaches of the enterprise.
The effect of this decision was very good, and the production scale of the South Asia company expanded rapidly, and the performance was very remarkable.
After that, Wang Yongqing opened a number of downstream factories in Taiwan, and the itinerary was integrated into production, and by 1987, he had an additional title of "plastic king".
Running for cross-strait relations
The tree is thousands of feet tall without its roots, and after Wang Yongqing became famous, he did not forget where his roots were.
He always misses returning to the motherland, always associates himself with the mainland, runs in many directions in order to be able to invest in the mainland, and makes unremitting efforts to enable normal cross-strait exchanges at an early date.
On November 30, 1989, Wang Yongqing departed from the United States, passed through Japan and then arrived at Dalian Airport.
The state leaders attached great importance to Wang Yongqing's arrival, and not only sent a special person to pick him up at the airport, but also specially arranged for him to be sent to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse to give him the highest standard of reception.
On December 5, Deng Xiaoping also personally received Wang Yongqing at the Great Hall of the People and said: "If two or three Wang Yongqing are like, cross-strait affairs will be much easier to handle."
This time to the mainland, Wang Yongqing wants to spend 7 billion US dollars to build a petrochemical industry in the southeast coastal area, and wants to help the development of the motherland.
When Wang Yongqing came to the mainland again to discuss the specific details of cooperation, his whereabouts were discovered and reported by Taiwan reporters in Hong Kong, causing an uproar in Taiwanese public opinion.
Wang Yongqing's investment in the mainland was also hindered by the Taiwan authorities, and he flew to the United States in a fit of rage.
After arriving in the United States, Wang Yongqing was still working hard for the original goal, and he had planned to buy 150,000 acres of land in the United States to give to the country, but due to some special reasons, the project did not succeed.
At this point, the sensational "Haicang Plan" was successful.
In the following 10 years or so, Wang Yongqing recalled with emotion many times:
"The so-called lost millimeter, the difference is thousands of miles." At that time, the 'Haicang Plan' could not be implemented, and the losses caused were difficult to estimate. When I think about it now, I really regret it! ”
The Incredible "Rich Life"
In the hearts of ordinary people, the life of a rich man is definitely a fan of money, but Wang Yongqing is different, his life is very simple, and it has become a legendary story.
Wang Yongqing is very casual about wearing, and has only one requirement for clothes: it can be worn, and it does not matter at all whether the clothes are brand-name, and the materials of the clothes are more expensive.
Because he ran in the morning for many years, the waistline looked a lot smaller, and the original fitted suit now looked empty, so his wife specially asked the tailor to come to the house to measure the size for him and change his clothes.
Perhaps Mrs. Wang did not make it clear, and the tailor thought that she was going to make several new suits for Wang Yongqing.
Wang Yongqing took out 5 suits and said: "You can still wear them after changing them, the old suits are only a little looser, the material is fine, there is no need to waste money."
The last small piece of soap used at home, Wang Yongqing will not lose it, he will take out a new piece, stick the small piece on the large piece of soap to continue to use.
When the glove is worn, it is turned over so that the hole in the back of the hand does not affect the use.
He also has a towel for, which has been used for more than 20 years, but he is still reluctant to throw it away.
In the early years, when he took the plane, Wang Yongqing would first choose economy class, and then he would always be talked to, and he had no choice but to change to first class, so that he also had more time to rest.
Wang Yongqing not only frugal himself, he also taught his children how to be frugal in life, often using the old saying "rich but not three generations" to warn his children not to sit back and enjoy their success.
Although he is very frugal in life, Wang Yongqing is not stingy in giving back to the society, and he often says: "It is a sin to have money and not to do charity."
In the 1960s, he invested 150 million yuan to establish the "Ming Zhi Industrial College", which allowed Formosa Plastics to establish a partnership with the school, which will not only provide scholarships and bursaries for young people from poor families who cannot afford to go to school, but also provide employment opportunities for the school's students.
In 1976, Wang Yongqing donated NT$2 billion to establish the "Chang Gung Memorial Hospital", chang gung is his father's name, the main purpose of this hospital is to make more poor people able to afford to see the disease.
In 1986, in order to promote organ donation, Wang Yongqing publicly announced: "In 5 years, all those who donate organs after death will give 100,000 yuan as a funeral subsidy." Then he personally signed the "Cornea Donation Consent Form."
Wang Yongqing's philanthropy is not limited to Taiwan, and he is always concerned about the development of the mainland.
He opened Chang Gung Hospital in Xiamen and donated a special education school covering an area of more than 70 acres in his hometown of Fujian.
In 2004, Wang Yongqing planned to open 10,000 Hope Primary Schools on the mainland, and 10 years later, this goal has been half completed, with a cumulative cost of 2.1 billion yuan.
In 2008, when a huge earthquake occurred in Wenchuan, Sichuan, Wang Yongqing broke his historical donation record and donated 100 million yuan to the disaster area.
"Although we are far away in Taiwan, the people on both sides of the strait are of the same language and the same race, and they are brothers in the same family, and of course it is incumbent upon us to do so." This is what Wang Yongqing's daughter said in an interview.
Five months after the Wenchuan earthquake, Wang Yongqing, who came to the United States on a business trip, died of a heart attack at the age of 92.
At Wang Yongqing's funeral, Foxconn founder Terry Gou personally came to mourn with his son, and prostrated his head three times, saying:
"He was the first person besides my father to bow down, because I felt his spirit, his care for me, the inspiration he gave me, he was not only the father of Taiwan's industry, in my mind, just like a strict father, a loving father, so I don't think I can express anything, but my little heart can make me think about him and regret him." 」