Author: Feng Shengdao
In 1993, the year after Deng Gong delivered his speech on the Southern Tour, 43-year-old Terry Gou, accompanied by relevant departments in Shenzhen, came to Longhua Town to select companies for the company. New production base.
Five years ago, Terry Gou founded the Shenzhen Ocean Precision Computer Connector Factory (the predecessor of Foxconn) in Shenzhen, becoming one of the first Taiwan-funded companies to enter the mainland.
Standing on a hilltop in Longhua Town, the accompanying official casually asked Terry Gou how many acres of land he planned to use as a factory. He pointed to the barren land in front of him and said proudly: "I want all the land that can be seen!"
At this time, Foxconn was not as famous as it is today. In the eyes of many people, it was just a company. An ordinary Taiwan-funded enterprise that makes computer accessories.
The accompanying officials were startled, thinking that the Taiwanese businessman's tone was a bit crazy, but Gou said with a smile: I am afraid that these lands are not enough for Foxconn's development.
I am crazy, but I am a Taiwanese businessman after all, and the political effect is far greater than the economic benefit. The accompanying staff did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly reported the situation to the superiors, and it was successfully approved.
Three years later, the Longhua Industrial Zone covering an area of ??more than 1,000 acres was formally established, which is today the Foxconn Industrial Park with more than 300,000 employees. It takes 30 minutes to cycle from the south gate of the factory to the north gate, which shows how large the area is.
This is the earliest factory built by Terry Gou in mainland China, and it is also the place where he devoted the most efforts after starting his business.
In the following years, Guo Taiming took Shenzhen as the center and radiated his companies from the Pearl River Delta to the Yangtze River Delta, from the coast to the inland and even overseas. By doing OEM work for big-name companies, he gradually established a chain of Foxconn is an "OEM empire" with more than one million employees and an output value of hundreds of billions.
Today, each Foxconn production line can produce nearly 600 smartphones per hour on average. One of every seven iPhones in the world is produced by Foxconn.
After 47 years of business, Terry Gou has transformed from an ordinary "plastic processing boy" to Taiwan's richest man worth tens of billions of dollars. Gou's hard work history in the past half century is quite exciting.
Some people say that he is a cold and authoritarian "tyrannical president", others say that he is a visionary and courageous management master, and still others say that he is a "playboy" who does not mean what he says.
Terry Gou is often contradictory in his speech. He often boasts that he is from Shanxi, and always praises himself with "loyalty, filial piety, etiquette and justice", but he also says, "Businessmen have no motherland. Wherever there is a market, there is a motherland." ”, and words such as “The mainland needs me, I don’t need the mainland”.
Today, the 71-year-old Terry Gou has stepped down from the high altar.
On October 8, 1950, a loud cry of a baby suddenly came from a Mazu temple called "Ci Hui Palace" on Banqiao Road in New Taipei City. Guo Lingrui, a young policeman living here, A baby boy was born to the family.
Faced with a difficult life, Officer Guo named his son "Terry Gou" to express his unforgettable history.
Guo Lingrui is a native of Jincheng County, Shanxi Province. He served as a soldier and later graduated from the Central Police Academy. In 1948, he withdrew to Taiwan with the defeated Kuomintang army. As a powerless man, he could not afford a house. Not assigned to a dormitory, he and his wife had to live in a Mazu temple near the police station.
When he was a child, Gou Taiming and his younger siblings were often bullied by their peers because they were foreigners. But no matter how many people there were or how badly they were beaten, he would always pick up his slippers and fight with his eyes red. Fight to the end.
At home, Guo Lingrui, who was born in the military, adopts quasi-military management. The children have a strict schedule of when to eat and when to sleep. This makes Guo Taiming not only ruthless but also fierce. Everything must follow the consciousness of the system.
In 1966, 16-year-old Terry Gou, due to his poor family, worked part-time to finish his studies at the "Maritime College". He then served in the military and later worked as a salesperson for Fuxing Shipping Company.
At the age of 21, Gou Taiming entered a pharmaceutical factory in Taipei as a salesman. Because of his hard work, he quickly won the heart of a girl named Lin Shuru who was also an intern at the pharmaceutical factory.
When he was young, Gou Taiming was tall and handsome, with a sweet mouth, and Lin Shuru was as beautiful as a flower and as gentle as water. The two soon fell in love.
Not long after the contact, Terry Gou was shocked to learn that he was not only a top student at Taipei Medical College, but also the apple of Hong Kong's richest man, Jimmy Lam.
Such a disparity in family background naturally made the Lin family extremely opposed and tried every means to prevent the two young people from getting together. Even Gou Taiming's parents stood up and expressed that they did not dare to pursue this marriage.
But Lin Shuru believed that Gou was her "right one". No matter how much her family tried to persuade her, she would not give in. Gou even felt that finding Lin Shuru was God's favor for him, and he would not compromise.
In 1975, 25-year-old Lin Shuru ignored the opposition of her family and finally "married" Guo Taiming, ending their five-year long love relationship and entering the palace of marriage.
After her grandson Guo Shouzheng and granddaughter Guo Xiaoling were born, Lin Baixin really didn't even take a look. One can imagine her resentment towards her daughter.
Lin Shuru, who wants love but not bread, is very stubborn. If you don’t want to interact with each other, don’t interact with her. She only wants to be Gou Taiming’s virtuous wife, supporting her husband and raising her children.
Later it turned out that she was still hasty.
The more resolute Lin Shuru’s attitude is, the greater the pressure on Guo Taiming. After all, she is the daughter of a billionaire, so she married a "poor boy" like herself without any reason. No matter how you say it, you have to get away with it. Show your father-in-law your reputation.
This was the era of the rise of plastic products, and the global plastic processing industry was gradually transferred to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Guo Taiming knew that there was no future in working part-time, so he founded "Hon Hai Plastics" with his friend *** a year before his marriage with 200,000 yuan funded by his mother.
"Hon Hai" is the name Guo Taiming thought of. Hong is the sky and the sea is the earth, which means that what he is doing is a big business between heaven and earth. The meaning is good, but unfortunately the reality has given him a hard time. Explosive hammer.
Although Terry Gou was very diligent when he started his business, he worked hard day and night. But making money requires not only hard work, but also experience, technology, connections, and even a bit of luck.
Unfortunately, the young Terry Gou did not have these qualities. In addition, he encountered the world's first oil crisis, the price of raw materials rose sharply, and the plastics industry was in depression.
After two years of hard work, not only did I make no money, but my partners withdrew their shares one after another and ran away. I lost hundreds of thousands of capital and still owed a lot of debt. Lao Guo's family was so poor that they even had no money for milk powder. Their newborn son could only drink rice soup and cry from hunger.
Seeing her husband sighing all day long and her family being so poor, the stubborn Lin Shuru had no choice but to look down and borrow 700,000 from her parents' family to support Gou Taiming.
In 1976, 26-year-old Terry Gou took a large order for black and white TV knobs with his warm "wife book".
But when he received the order, he discovered that he did not have the skills to produce knob molds. He could only ask for help from outside mold masters to complete the production task.
During the entire order production process, Terry Gou became acutely aware that plastic processing was at the bottom of the industrial chain, and that mold processing was the core of the entire manufacturing industry. His mind became somewhat active.
In 1977, Hon Hai already had millions of assets on its books. Under the advice of many friends, Terry Gou had two seemingly good "money-making opportunities" in front of him.
On the one hand, Taiwan's economy is booming, taking advantage of the real estate boom to speculate on land; on the other hand, the rise of manufacturing has driven up the prices of various raw materials, and you can also make money by hoarding raw materials.
Unexpectedly, Terry Gou chose to spend all his money to buy the most advanced Japanese mold machines and hire professional technicians.
He believes that speculating on land and hoarding raw materials are speculative behaviors. Only by engaging in industry and mastering core technologies can we make steady profits without losing money.
Having said that, Terry Gou suffered a lot during this period. While he had to spend money to train technicians and work overtime to maintain new machines, he saw the land and raw materials that were already at his fingertips doubled. Another doubled price makes everyone feel depressed.
Not only that, Guo Taiming also moved the company to the remote Tucheng in Taipei, which is a prison specifically for economic prisoners in Taiwan.
He was worried that if he had any financial problems, his employees could at least report the situation nearby and keep the company running.
In addition to being worried about management, Terry Gou is also really poor.
One year during the Chinese New Year, after Terry Gou paid out the year-end bonuses to the company’s employees, he only had 2,000 yuan left in his pocket. He had to leave 1,000 yuan to buy New Year’s Eve dinner for his family, and left 1,000 yuan to wait for his wife to return to her parents’ home to give her a token gift. I got a few red envelopes to show off my appearance.
Fortunately, his wife Lin Shuru continued to encourage him. After all, he was a top student in college. She firmly believed that her husband’s decision was right and let him go ahead.
It must be said that having the support of your family at any time is the most critical step towards success.
After nearly four years of hard work, Terry Gou resisted the temptation. With advanced technology and equipment, he continued to receive orders for electronic parts from Europe, the United States and other countries. His business continued to rise, and friends around him made quick money. Their careers came to an abrupt end.
In 1980, Hon Hai's business was really booming, but the 30-year-old Terry Gou felt a little unhappy.
Because of buying equipment, Terry Gou often visited Japan. He found that Japan has a "hen raising chicks" model, where large factories support small factories to become their own "satellite factories" and make money in partnership with each other. .
Looking back at Taiwan, it is not uncommon for large factories to bully small factories, and small factories to engage in price wars with each other. News of factories closing down and legal entities being shut down due to loan repayments are not uncommon.
Therefore, Terry Gou made a decision: he would no longer play with local factories in Taiwan and go do business with Americans. It was this seemingly "advocating for foreigners" decision that gave birth to the later famous Foxconn.
In 1985, Terry Gou received an order to produce connectors for computer companies, which was officially linked to the "computer industry."
Because he wanted to enter the international market and the brand needed a foreign name, Terry Gou named it "FOXCONN (Foxconn)".
FOX means fox, which means that enterprises should be as flexible and alert as foxes. CONN is the abbreviation of Connector in English, and the nature of the enterprise is clear at a glance.
This name is well deserved. When developing connector production equipment, Terry Gou, who did not understand many processes, declared: "There are four ways to succeed: copy, research, create, and invent."
It is this flexible and somewhat cunning corporate culture that has allowed Foxconn to grow rapidly, moving from mold processing to the more complex "personal computer" production process.
In order to open up overseas markets, Terry Gou went to the United States alone to find customers.
In a few weeks, he traveled to 32 of the 51 states in the United States by eating hamburgers every day and staying in motels for $12.
With the explosive growth of the global information industry, Terry Gou's luck also came. Foxconn's professional equipment and technology were recognized by overseas merchants and received many OEM orders.
Relying on the R&D strength invested in the early stage, it takes other companies several months to complete the process from design to mass production, but Foxconn only takes a few weeks or even less, and the price is actually lower than its peers.
In 1988, Foxconn was a large enterprise with more than 1,000 employees and a revenue of over 1 billion yuan, becoming an important technology-based processing enterprise in Baodao.
But in this year, the 38-year-old Terry Gou once again made an important decision: to relocate the entire production base to the mainland.
Although at this time, in order to promote reforms, the mainland has introduced many policies to support Taiwanese companies in setting up factories in the mainland, most of them are on the sidelines, and very few companies are actually willing to implement them.
Terry Gou dared to break through the political risks on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to set up a factory in the mainland. He was forced to do so because of cost considerations.
With the economic boom in the 1980s, Taiwan's land and labor costs increased dramatically. For the same type of work, the labor cost in Taiwan is five times that of the mainland, and even if you have money, you can’t find anyone.
At the same time, compared with the various preferential policies in mainland China, Taiwan is laissez-faire towards small and medium-sized enterprises, making things difficult and discriminating at every turn.
Because of this, Terry Gou has already planned "Hon Hai"'s plan to move towards a global industry.
At this time, the mainland not only gave Taiwanese businessmen great discounts in land policy, but also gave them full care and support in taxation, recruitment and other aspects.
Therefore, after the establishment of Shenzhen Foxconn Industrial Park, Terry Gou confidently said: "Mainland will be the experimental battlefield for our manufacturing technology in the future, where we will challenge the highest level of manufacturing and sales."
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After taking root in Shenzhen, Foxconn has officially entered the fast lane of development. With its ultra-high cost performance and high efficiency, it has snatched many orders from precision manufacturing companies in Japan, South Korea and other countries.
While the new factory in Longhua was under construction, Foxconn happened to be rushing a batch of orders for Compaq computers in the temporarily rented Huangtian factory, which Terry Gou had snatched from South Korea's LG.
The day before delivery, there were still more than 10,000 computer casings that had not been completed, and it was about to be finalized. Terry Gou personally led all employees into two groups, A and B, to take turns on the assembly line, 24 hours a day. The equipment does not stop people inside.
At 5:57 in the morning, all goods were produced and packed, 3 minutes earlier than expected.
Efficient and punctual, the price is lower than that of its peers. At the same time, in order to dispel the concerns of its partners, Foxconn promises that it will only do OEM work and will never make related brand products.
Such a company is hard to find even with a lantern. Terry Gou, who has been practicing signing for many years, finally has the opportunity to sign his name on cooperation agreements with industrial giants such as IBM, Intel, DELL, and Sony, and earn money. It also poured in like flowing water.
The purpose of doing OEM is to make money, but it also depends on when is the most cost-effective time to do it. The shrewd Terry Gou is always calculating the accounts in his mind.
Although mobile phone foundry is Gou Taiming’s most profitable project, including the later TFT-LCD field, Foxconn was not the earliest entrant in these markets.
Before 1999, when domestic OEMs were rushing to grab the mobile phone OEM business, Gou felt that the cost of manufacturing mobile phones was too high. No matter how many invitations the manufacturers invited, he would not do anything and continue to do the personal computer OEM business.
It was not until 2000 that Terry Gou felt that mobile phones had become an indispensable communication tool for the public, so he did not rush to take action.
With its excellent quality and technology, Foxconn has successively won massive orders from many international mobile phone brands, and soon monopolized the global mobile phone OEM industry.
Apple’s Steve Jobs admired the quality of the mobile phones produced by Foxconn for Motorola, so he secretly met with Terry Gou and handed over the iPhone production task to Foxconn.
In 2001, Hon Hai became the leading private enterprise in Taiwan with revenue of NT$144.2 billion. Foxconn ranks second in the "China's Top 200 Exporters", accounting for 6.2% of Shenzhen's total export value at this time.
Just one year later, this number became 345 billion yuan, and the performance increased by 70%. The 52-year-old Terry Gou ranked 198th on this year's Forbes rich list with a net worth of US$2.3 billion, and has been the "Taiwan's richest man in technology" for four consecutive years.
Since Terry Gou moved to mainland China to found Foxconn, the average annual growth has exceeded 60%, and global market share and revenue have soared. It is almost a dominant presence among global EMS (professional manufacturing service providers).
Foxconn’s success is naturally inseparable from Gou Taiming’s diligent and refined management, but there seems to be a lack of human touch in it, and big trouble will soon follow.
At the beginning of 2010, the first incident of a worker jumping off a building occurred at Foxconn in Shenzhen.
Terry Gou didn't care at first. It was normal for millions of employees to have one or two unthinkable suicides.
Unexpectedly, in just nine months, 14 incidents of Foxconn workers jumping off buildings occurred one after another.
Public opinion was in an uproar, the stock price fell, officials questioned, and Terry Gou was also confused.
Terry Gou did not run out of options. After the fifth suicide incident, he took the initiative to announce a salary increase for all employees, and then invited the media to visit on-site, and also invited several "ladies" who are as beautiful as flowers. Wandering around the factory area and acting as a psychological counselor.
Not to mention this, Gou Taiming also used a private plane to invite 30 eminent monks from his hometown of Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province to perform rituals for the deceased, and he knelt aside to pray silently.
But it was useless. Within a few days, another Foxconn employee jumped from the building.
Terry Gou sighed deeply and had no choice but to adopt an extremely simple and crude method, installing barbed wire fences outside the workers' dormitory buildings.
The effect was immediate. There were no more employees jumping off buildings, but the price of iron wire in Shenzhen has also increased this year.
Feng shui aside, employees’ continuous jumping off buildings is inseparable from Foxconn’s harsh management system.
It is said that in Longhua, Shenzhen, if you see any worker with blurred eyes and a look of not waking up, that must be a Foxconn employee.
Terry Gou, who received a military education since childhood and served as a soldier, adopted a complete set of militarized management for Foxconn. Simply put, everything from life to work is run in a streamlined manner, and workers are used as "humanoid robots."
Foxconn employees must undergo military training before joining the company, and work and life in the park must be strictly carried out in accordance with Foxconn's "Employee Handbook."
According to the "Manual", when working, whether sitting or standing, everyone must listen to the whistle and act in unison. Even if they are just standing, they must stand in a military posture like a soldier.
Even for simple welding work, workers on the assembly line have a complete set of scanning, picking up, welding and completion procedures. They only need to shake their heads left and right to follow the work and must not look around.
It’s not surprising that the whole set of actions is repeated thousands of times a day.
If you chat in the factory area more than three times, you will be warned or directly fired; you cannot go to the toilet for more than 10 minutes... Such rules are strictly instilled in employees when they join the company.
Strict upper-lower management is implemented in the factory. Different colors of clothing can clearly tell what class he belongs to. Food, accommodation and walking routes are completely different.
What's even more amazing is Foxconn's dormitory arrangement. Fellows will never arrange to live in the same room. They are afraid that chatting will delay work or cause trouble.
In addition, Foxconn workers not only receive free food and accommodation, but also outsource all daily tasks, including laundry and cleaning, which are handled by specialized companies.
It’s not that Foxconn feels sorry for its workers, but that it can save uncontrollable money and time costs, allowing workers to focus all their energy on their work.
The management is not relaxed either. Meetings every day are like military meetings. Not only are they trembling with fear, but Terry Gou also has his own "peeling theory". He often lectures, "Has your urine turned yellow? Isn't it yellow?" That proves you haven’t worked hard enough.”
This is actually the so-called “process-based fine management” that Terry Gou learned when he was working with major foreign brands. It is also the basic principle of today’s assembly line operations, ensuring that everyone in the company. Each part complies with industrial production standards and is manageable and controllable.
The problem is that foreign managers have long realized that such behavior is somewhat anti-human. They have turned manual work into automated operations through large-scale equipment upgrades, and workers' rights and interests have also been effectively protected.
But here at Foxconn, for decades, they have been trying to get cheaper labor and deliberately handed over processes that should have been automated to manual work.
When a good living person turns into a "robot", the consequences can be imagined.
The reason behind this is simple. Foxconn’s long-term price is far lower than that of its competitors because its gross profit margin is so low that it is unimaginable.
For an iPhone worth US$1,000, the bulk goes to Apple, and the small part goes to Japanese and Korean parts manufacturers. Foxconn earns less than US$10. If operations are deducted, The cost and net profit may be less than $1.
This leads to the fact that if Foxconn, with an average gross profit of around 3, wants to continue operating, it can only maintain it by continuously reducing costs. The wool comes from the sheep, and the profits naturally have to be squeezed from Foxconn's workers.
When Shenzhen Foxconn was established, the average labor force in Taiwan was five times that of the mainland. Counting the various policies provided by the mainland governments to attract foreign investment, Gou's costs were far lower than those of his peers.
What is unexpected is that no matter how harsh and unkind Foxconn’s management is, when incidents of people jumping off buildings happened one after another, there were still long queues of job seekers at the gates of Foxconn factories across the country.
Because compared to other companies, Foxconn still has the highest salary and the most formal management, which is a bit scary to think about.
In fact, Terry Gou also has his own considerations.
The key to Foxconn's success lies in Gou Taiming's "systematic cost reduction" and effective cost control and efficiency improvement throughout the entire process, which is the famous "accepting orders at a deficit, shipping in black" system.
"Deficit order taking" refers to grabbing orders from opponents at the lowest price. By strictly controlling the accuracy of the production process and the accuracy of equipment operation, all processes are dismantled and layered. Layer assessment management.
The decomposed steps will improve cost control to the extreme, and finally achieve the result of "black letter shipping" where customers are satisfied and you can still make a profit.
In addition, when new technology products appear on the market, Terry Gou is rarely the "first to eat crabs". They always wait for the market scale to expand and the product system to be standardized before they can win in one fell swoop with an invincible price banner.
Not only that, Foxconn, which has more than ten R&D centers around the world and tens of thousands of R&D engineers, has already shifted from pure OEM to high-tech research fields such as AI intelligence, 5G communications, and precision manufacturing, crushing the industry with technology. Countless potential competitors.
In the fiercely competitive business environment, Foxconn, which is "brave and good at fighting", has gradually become a "sweet steamed bun" in the eyes of local governments that can directly drive GDP.
At the 2018 Wuzhen World Internet Conference, 68-year-old Terry Gou said: Foxconn’s output value accounts for 3.9 of China’s entire GDP exports and 3.6 of imports, accounting for nearly 300 billion in national GDP. The next step will be to increase efforts to 5 points.
It’s no wonder that when Foxconn was preparing to enter Henan in 2009, in order to help recruit workers, the Henan Provincial Government even issued special documents to recruit people from counties and villages for subcontracting tasks. Each worker could also receive to 200 yuan government subsidy.
Originally, some media questioned whether the Henan government was paying hundreds of millions to please Foxconn. However, after Foxconn completed its many layouts in Henan, everyone who saw the figures shut up.
In 2019, Henan’s total import and export value increased rapidly from less than 20 billion yuan to 500 billion yuan in ten years. Foxconn alone accounted for 60% of the import and export value. Henan has successfully entered the national foreign trade province Top ten.
The same is true for Sichuan. After Foxconn entered, Sichuan’s total import and export value of goods increased from less than 100 billion to 300 billion. The import and export value of Chengdu Foxconn accounted for 19.2% of the province’s total.
Kunshan, Yantai, Chongqing, Guiyang and other provinces and cities have also benefited from the import and export trade by introducing Foxconn, and the urban industrialization and modernization process has also been improved accordingly.
It is undeniable that the arrival of Foxconn has not only solved the employment problem for various places, but also brought a series of upstream and downstream industrial chains. The local high-tech and electronics industries have been rapidly improved, directly changing the entire city. and even the province’s economic production system.
Therefore, no matter where Terry Gou goes to inspect in mainland China, local top leaders will basically meet the "God of Wealth" in person.
At Foxconn, Chairman Terry Gou is a god-like existence.
On the one hand, his words are posted as quotations in every corner of the park, and on the other hand, countless people sing his praises around him every day.
In this case, it is not surprising that some arrogant Chairman Guo said such nonsense as "Foxconn feeds many mainlanders."
No matter how powerful Foxconn founded by Terry Gou is, he is still essentially a businessman who puts profits first.
In the past two years, Terry Gou has followed in the footsteps of large companies such as Apple and quietly invested tens of billions in building new factories in India and Vietnam. This is a normal manifestation of businessmen's pursuit of profits.
The love life of this "God of Wealth" with a net worth of hundreds of billions is also famous on the island for its changeable and colorful love life.
On March 12, 2005, his wife Lin Shuru died of breast cancer. Just a few days ago, 55-year-old Terry Gou was elected as the richest man in Taiwan on the Forbes list.
Perhaps he was feeling grateful that his wife, who had suffered for many years, could not see this day. Gou faced the camera and shouted sadly: "God is unfair to me."
In order to thank his wife for staying with her all the way, Terry Gou spent hundreds of millions to buy a castle named after Lin Shuru in the Czech Republic.
Unfortunately, when his wife was still married, Terry Gou made a "mistake that all men make" and had an affair with a female employee of a financial company, which caused a huge commotion.
In the end, Lin Shuru endured the pain and teamed up with Terry Gou to end the matter by sending each other to jail for extortion.
It is estimated that Wu Xiubo and his wife later understood this wave of sexual manipulation and applied what they learned.
After Lin Shuru left, Terry Gou repeatedly told the media that "my wife is irreplaceable."
But as the saying goes, "A man's mouth is a liar." After his wife left, Gou seemed to have let himself go, and there were constant scandals with many female stars.
Among them are Lin Chiling, who dances intimately with him, and Carina Lau, who joins hands with him in public events. As for other 18th-tier starlets, there are countless others.
Teacher Li Ao couldn’t bear to look at the series of breaking news, and said bluntly: "He has no skills when it comes to teasing women, like a small animal in heat."
Regardless of whether it was just for fun or not, Anyway, "Er Ling" has since disappeared from Gou Taiming's side, and was replaced by a dance teacher Zeng Xinying who is 24 years younger than Gou Taiming.
What’s interesting is that this teacher Zeng was the dance teacher who guided Terry Gou and Lin Chiling to dance. The relationship between them is fascinating.
In 2018, 68-year-old Terry Gou married 44-year-old Zeng Xinying. At the wedding scene, the ever-strong Gou Taiming did 30 push-ups on the spot, which pushed the atmosphere to a climax.
Taiwanese media deliberately asked Terry Gou why he fell in love with Zeng Xinying. He said sincerely: "I can't smell money from her."
This is not very harmful. , is extremely insulting. I don’t know what female celebrities such as Lin Chiling and Carina Lau thought after hearing this.
The original "Xiao Tiantian" is gone today. It can be said that Gou Taiming's relationship with a female celebrity is just a show of love, but for the Foxconn empire he built with his own hands, it must be true love.
Although Terry Gou has expressed his intention to retire since 2001, in the past 18 years, after experiencing a series of emergencies such as employees jumping off buildings, the death of his successor’s brother, and the global financial crisis, he is still worried and alone. Carrying the banner of Foxconn.
On June 21, 2019, 69-year-old Terry Gou finally announced his retirement, handing over the position of chairman of Hon Hai to Liu Yangwei, who had been with him for decades.
From China to the Americas, to Europe, South America and Africa, Foxconn’s factories are spread over half of the global village. The billion-dollar empire built by Terry Gou can be called a business miracle among the Chinese.
Many people will definitely talk about Gou Taiming’s pattern and vision, but in fact, if he had not stepped on the mainland’s forty-year economic development, enjoyed countless preferential policies and decades of demographic dividends, Gou Taiming would It may not be possible to achieve today's results.
People standing in the wind may soar into the sky, or they may suddenly fall from the clouds.
As mainland China’s demographic dividend fades, the cheap labor resources that Foxconn relies on for survival are shrinking rapidly, and there are more silent competitors like BYD and Luxshare Precision. How can Terry Gou let go after his retirement? Feel relaxed.
It remains to be seen where Foxconn will go after leaving Terry Gou.
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