Lee Teng-hui, former leader of the Taiwan authorities, died of illness at the Age of 97 at the Age of 97 at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei on 30 July. Looking back on his life, he has repeatedly made flattering remarks, saying that the Diaoyu Islands belong to Japan. Lee Teng-hui has always cherished special feelings for Japan, especially in his later years. Even his last book, The Rest of My Life: My Life's Journey and Taiwan's Path to Democracy, published in 2016, was written in Japanese.
Lee Teng-hui, who holds a doctorate in agricultural economics, became obsessed with raising cattle in his later years, and like him, he raised "beef cattle with Japanese black hair and cattle ancestry."
Lee Teng-hui visited Japan nine times after leaving office, and in August 2016, he visited Ishigaki Island in Japan, and was deeply impressed by the flavor, production, sale, and grading system of the local Ishigaki cattle, so after returning to Taiwan, his staff actively planned to introduce Ishigaki cattle genes and breed Taiwan cattle to breed the so-called "Taiwan Wagyu cattle" feasibility.
In the second half of 2016, Lee Teng-hui bought 19 black cattle on the Qingtiangang in Yangmingshan, and after drawing blood and sending them to Japan for testing, it was found that it was really a purebred Wagyu cow left over from the Japanese occupation era, "but ma black hair cattle", which took shape.
Lee Teng-hui bought the 19 beef cattle with Japanese black hair and cattle pedigree in one fell swoop, and set up a breeding base at the leased site of The Shōkyon Zhaofeng Farm in Hualien to breed "Taiwan Wagyu beef" bred by Japanese black hair cattle and other cattle breeds.
In 2017, Lee Teng-hui opened the "Genxingju Biotechnology Company" to cultivate Taiwan Wagyu beef, named it "Genxing Beef" after his former residence in Sanzhi (now New Taipei Freshwater), and issued a bold message: "Within 3 years, We must let Taiwan cattle go public" and "I hope that Taiwanese people will eat Taiwan Wagyu beef that does not lose to Japanese Wagyu beef".
At present, there have been preliminary results in beef cattle breeding, and at the end of 2018, a hybrid cow bred with a dairy cow was successfully born, and about 300 cows were also bred.
Even in 2018, Lee Teng-hui also led the publication of the paper "Analysis of the Genetic Relationship between Taiwan's Cattle Breeds, Black Hairs and Breeds and European and American Breeds by SNP Markers", which was published in the journal "Japan Animal Products Society", the most authoritative academic journal in the Field of Japanese Animal Production, which attracted many Taiwanese and Japanese scholars to express their participation in Taiwan Wagyu research and cooperation.
On 8 February this year, Lee Teng-hui was hospitalized for drinking milk and causing pneumonia. In May, he set up and served as chairman of the "Yuanxingju Biotechnology Company", which he quietly asked Lee to step down as chairman and become a director, and the chairman was taken over by Liu Taiying, vice chairman of the Lee Teng-hui Foundation, who was the original director.
Today, with Lee Teng-hui's illness and death, some green media have lamented "regret" because "Lee Teng-hui's Taiwan and cow dreams are only one mile away."
However, for Lee Teng-hui, who was "addicted to raising cattle" in his later years, some netizens on the island directly choked: "I have the ability to raise cattle on the Diaoyutai (Diaoyu Island)!" More netizens can't look at it, angrily criticizing "Taiwan cattle are Taiwanese cattle, insist on adding a 'he' word, are Taiwanese people a Yamato nation?" Get a cottage cow complacent!"
"Lee Teng-hui's beautiful day is considered to be flattering to home, and even the cattle are not spared!" Some people are very indignant, believing that Lee Teng-hui has always advocated that Japan is Taiwan's "motherland," that the Diaoyu Islands are Japanese in his view, and that now even cattle are superior to Japanese breeds.
Straits Herald reporter @Straits Faction comprehensive report