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In 1993, the year after Deng Gong made a speech on his southern tour, 43-year-old Guo Taiming went to Longhua Town to select a new production base for the enterprise accompanied by relevant departments in Shenzhen.
Five years ago, Guo Taiming founded Shenzhen Ocean Precision Computer Connector Factory (the predecessor of Foxconn) in Shenzhen, becoming one of the first Taiwan-funded enterprises to settle in the mainland.
Standing on a hill in Longhua Town, accompanying officials casually asked Guo Taiming how many acres of land he planned to build a factory? Pointing to a barren land in front of him, he said heroically, "I'll take all the land I can see!" "
At this time, Foxconn is not as famous as it is today. In the eyes of many people, it is just an ordinary Taiwan-funded enterprise that makes computer accessories.
The accompanying official was shocked and thought the Taiwanese businessman sounded a little crazy, but Guo Taiming said with a smile, I'm afraid these places are not enough for Foxconn's development.
crazy, but people are Taiwanese businessmen after all, and the political effect is far greater than the economic benefit. The entourage did not dare to neglect, and quickly reported the situation to the above and was successfully approved.
Three years later, Longhua Industrial Park covering an area of more than 1, mu was formally established, which is Foxconn Industrial Park with more than 3, employees today. It takes 3 minutes to ride from the south gate of the factory to the north gate, which shows the large area.
this is the earliest factory built by Guo taiming in mainland China, and it is also the place where he devoted the most efforts after starting his business.
in the following years, with Shenzhen as the center, Guo taiming radiated enterprises from the Pearl River Delta to the Yangtze River Delta, from the coast to the inland and even overseas, and gradually established Foxconn, an "OEM empire" with more than one million employees and an output value of hundreds of billions.
Today, every production line of Foxconn can produce nearly 6 smartphones per hour, and one out of every seven iPhone in the world comes from Foxconn.
After 47 years of business, Guo Taiming has transformed from an unremarkable "little plastic processing brother" into the richest man in Taiwan Province worth tens of billions of dollars. His hard work history in the past half century is quite wonderful.
Some people say that he is a ruthless and autocratic "overbearing president", others say that he is a visionary and courageous management master, and still others say that he is a insincere "playboy".
Guo taiming often contradicts himself when he speaks. He often pretends to be a native of Shanxi, always holding "loyalty, filial piety, propriety and righteousness" to give himself gold, but he also says that "businessmen have no motherland, where there is a market, there is a motherland" and "the mainland needs me, but I don't need the mainland".
Now, 71-year-old Guo Taiming has stepped off the altar.
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On October 8, 195, a baby crying sound suddenly came from a Mazu Tempel called Cihui Palace, and a baby boy was born to a small policeman Guo Lingrui who lived here.
Facing the embarrassing life, Guo police officer named his son "Guo Taiming" to show that he would never forget this unforgettable history.
Guo Lingrui is a native of Jincheng County, Shanxi Province. He was a former soldier and graduated from the Central Police Academy. In 1948, he was evacuated to Taiwan Province with the defeat of the Kuomintang. He had no power and influence, so he could not afford a house, nor was he assigned to a dormitory. He and his wife could only live in Mazu Tempel near the police station.
As children, Guo Taiming and his younger brothers and sisters were often bullied by their peers because they were strangers. However, no matter how many people there were and how badly they were beaten, he would be red-eyed, grab slippers and knock each other to the death.
At home, Guo Lingrui, a soldier, adopts paramilitary management. When children eat and go to bed, there is a strict work and rest system, which makes Guo Taiming have a strong sense of following the system in everything.
In 1966, 16-year-old Guo Taiming, due to his poor family, finished his studies at the Maritime College by working part-time and part-time, turned around and did military service, and then worked as a salesman for Fuxing Shipping Company.
At the age of 21, Guo Taiming entered a pharmaceutical factory in Taipei as a salesman. Because of his diligence, he quickly won the heart of a girl named Lin Shuru who was also an intern in the pharmaceutical factory.
When I was young, Guo Taiming was tall and handsome, with a sweet mouth, and Lin Shuru was beautiful and gentle, and they soon fell in love.
Not long after the contact, Guo Taiming was startled, only to know that he was not only high flyers of Taipei Medical College, but also the apple of Lin Baixin, a Hong Kong billionaire.
Such a disparity in family background naturally made the Lins extremely opposed. They tried every means to prevent the two young people from being together, and even Guo Taiming's parents stood up and said that they dared not climb this marriage.
But Lin Shuru decided that Guo Taiming was his "the only thrill". No matter how hard his family tried to persuade him, he never gave in. Guo Taiming felt that finding Lin Shuru was a blessing from God and he never gave in.
In 1975, 25-year-old Lin Shuru finally married Guo Taiming in spite of family opposition, ending a five-year long-distance love affair and stepping into the marriage hall.
After the birth of Guo Shouzheng, the grandson, and Guo Xiaoling, the granddaughter, Lin Baixin really didn't go to have a look, so the resentment towards her daughter can be imagined.
Lin Shuru, who wants love instead of bread, is very hard-willed. If she doesn't associate, she won't associate. She is bent on being a good wife of Guo Taiming and caring for her husband and children.
it turned out that she was hasty.
The more determined Lin Shuru's attitude is, the greater the pressure on Guo Taiming. She is the daughter of a billionaire at any rate, so she marries herself as a "poor boy" inexplicably. In any case, she has to mix up some tricks to show her father-in-law.
At this time, it is the era of the rise of plastic products, and the global plastic processing industry has been transferred to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Knowing that there was no future in working, Guo Taiming founded Hon Hai Plastics with 2, friends funded by his mother one year before his marriage.
"Hon Hai" is the name that Guo Taiming wanted. Hong is the sky, and the sea is the land. It means that he is doing a big business between heaven and earth, which has a good meaning. Unfortunately, the reality actually gave him a hammer.
Third,
Although Guo Taiming was also diligent when he started his business, he worked hard day and night. Making money depends not only on diligence, but also on experience, technology, contacts and even a little luck.
unfortunately, Guo taiming, when he was young, didn't have these things. In addition, the price of raw materials rose sharply after the first oil crisis in the world, and the plastic industry was in a depression.
I've been busy for two years, but I haven't made any money. My partners have also withdrawn their shares and run away, and hundreds of thousands of capital have been lost, and I still owe a debt. Lao Guo's family was so poor that they didn't even have money for milk powder. The newborn son could only drink rice soup and cry with hunger.
Seeing her husband sighing all day and her family poor, the stubborn Lin Shuru had to pull her face down and borrow 7, yuan from her family to support Guo Taiming.
In 1976, 26-year-old Guo Taiming took a big order for black and white TV knobs with a warm wife book.
but when he took the order, he found that he didn't have the technology to produce knob molds, so he had to ask for help from an outside mold master to complete the production task.
In the whole process of order production, Guo Taiming was keenly aware that plastic processing belongs to the bottom of the industrial chain, and mold processing is the core of the whole manufacturing industry, and his mind was somewhat active.
In 1977, Hon Hai had millions of assets in its books. With the advice of many friends, Guo Taiming had two seemingly good "money-making opportunities" in front of him.
On the one hand, Taiwan Province's economy is soaring, taking advantage of the hot real estate to speculate on land; On the other hand, the rise of manufacturing industry has driven the price increase of various raw materials, and you can also make money by hoarding raw materials.
Unexpectedly, Guo Taiming chose to buy the most advanced Japanese mold machine with all his money and hire professional technicians.
He thinks that land speculation and raw material hoarding are speculative activities. Only by engaging in industry and mastering core technologies can we make a steady profit.
Having said that, Guo Taiming has suffered a lot during this period. While spending money on training technicians and working overtime to maintain new machines, he has watched the prices of land and raw materials that were originally available at his fingertips double and double, which makes everyone feel depressed.
Not only that, Guo Taiming also moved his company to Tucheng, a remote prison for economic criminals in Taiwan Province.
He is worried that in case of any financial problems, employees can at least report the situation nearby and keep the company running.
besides being afraid of business, Guo taiming is really poor.
One year during the Chinese New Year, after Guo Taiming handed out the year-end bonus for the employees of the company, there were only 2, yuan left in his pocket, so he had to leave 1, yuan for the family to buy a New Year's Eve dinner, and the remaining 1, yuan was symbolically wrapped in a few red envelopes when his wife returned home, so as to fill a facade.
Fortunately, his wife, Lin Shuru, kept encouraging him. After all, high flyers was a college student. She firmly believed that her husband's decision was correct and let him go ahead.
I have to say that getting the support of my family at any time is the most critical step towards success.
After nearly four years, Guo Taiming, who resisted the temptation, worked hard. With advanced technology and equipment, he kept receiving orders for electronic parts from Europe and the United States, and his business continued to climb, but the careers of friends who made quick money around him came to an abrupt end.
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In 198, Hon Hai's business really flourished, but 3-year-old Guo Taiming was a little unhappy.
Because of buying equipment, Guo Taiming often visited Japan. He found that the Japanese side is a "hen-raised chicken" model, in which large factories support small factories to become their own "satellite factories" and make money together.
Looking back at Taiwan Province, it's common to see that big factories bully small factories, and small factories fight each other in price wars, fighting endlessly, and news that factories are closed down and legal persons are shut down because they can't pay their loans.
Therefore, Guo Taiming made a decision: instead of playing with local factories in Taiwan Province, he went to do business with Americans. It was this seemingly "worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries" decision that gave birth to the later famous Foxconn.
In 1985, Guo Taiming received an order to produce connectors for computer enterprises, which was officially linked to the "computer industry".
Guo taiming got the name "FOXCONN" because he wanted to enter the international market and the brand could afford a mbth.
FOX means fox, which means that enterprises should be as flexible and agile as foxes. CONN is the abbreviation of English Connector, and the nature of enterprises is clear at a glance.
This name deserves its name. When developing connector production equipment, Guo Taiming, who didn't know much about the technology, declared that "there are four ways to succeed: copying, researching, creating and inventing".
It is this flexible and somewhat cunning corporate culture that has enabled Foxconn to grow rapidly, from mold processing to more complicated "personal computer" production.
in order to explore overseas markets, Guo taiming 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 and staying at a $12 motel every day.
With the explosive growth of the global information industry, Guo Taiming's luck has also come. Foxconn's professional equipment and technology have been recognized by overseas merchants and won many OEM orders.
With the early R&D strength, it takes several months for other companies to complete the process from design to mass production. Foxconn only takes several weeks or even less, and the price is actually lower than that of its peers.
in 1988, Foxconn was a large-scale enterprise with more than 1, people and revenue exceeding 1 billion yuan, and became an important technology-based processing enterprise in Baodao.
But in this year, 38-year-old Guo Taiming made another important decision: move the whole production base to the mainland.
At this time, although the mainland has issued many policies to support Taiwanese businessmen to set up factories in the mainland, most of them are on the sidelines, and few enterprises are really willing to put them into practice.
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Guo Taiming dared to break through the cross-strait political risks and set up a factory in the mainland, which was both cost-conscious and forced.
With the rapid economic development in 198s, the cost of land and employment in Taiwan Province has soared. For the same type of work, the labor cost in Taiwan Province is five times that in the Mainland, and there is no one to find with money.
At the same time, compared with various preferential policies in mainland China, Taiwan Province has been laissez-faire to small and medium-sized enterprises, making things difficult and discriminating everywhere.
because of this, Guo taiming has worked out a plan for "Hon Hai" to move towards a global industry.
At this time, the mainland not only gave Taiwan businessmen great preferential treatment in land policy, but also gave full care and support in taxation and recruitment.
Therefore, after the establishment of Shenzhen Foxconn Industrial Park, Guo Taiming confidently said: "The mainland will be the experimental battlefield of our manufacturing technology in the future, where we will challenge the highest level of manufacturing and sales."
after taking root in Shenzhen, Foxconn officially entered the fast lane of development, and with its high cost performance and high efficiency, it snatched many orders from precision manufacturing enterprises in Japan, South Korea and other countries.
during the construction of Longhua's new factory, Foxconn happened to catch a batch of orders for Compaq computers in the temporarily rented Huangtian factory, which Guo Taiming snatched from LG of South Korea.
one day before the delivery deadline, there are still more than 1, computer cases that have not been completed, and it is about to be stipulated. Guo Taiming personally leads all employees to go to the assembly line in turn in groups A and B, and stops people and equipment within 24 hours.
at 5: 57 am, all the goods were produced and packed, three 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 patted its chest and promised that it would only do OEM work and would never do related brand goods.
it's hard to find such a company with lanterns. Guo Taiming, who has been practicing his signature for many years, finally has the opportunity to work with IBM, Intel and D.