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"The mainland has a bite of food because of me! The mainland cannot do without Foxconn!"
This extremely arrogant words come from the mouth of Foxconn Group President Guo Taiming , and it is precisely because of this sentence. It ruined Foxconn's development in the mainland over the years and caused it to fall from the altar.
In 2017, Terry Gou also launched a huge amount of investment in the United States. The purpose of is to create an industrial park comparable to Silicon Valley .
But not long after, Terry Gou's pro-US business plan was wasted. Even at this time, Terry Gou's attitude towards the mainland was already extremely arrogant.
So under what circumstances did Terry Gou say such words? What bad things did the Foxconn Group, which Guo Taiming controlled, do to the mainland?
Termine Gou
Termine Gou's ungratefulness
Speaking of Foxconn, I believe everyone is very familiar with it. For more than ten years, it has mastered a large number of OEM orders for Apple . In addition to Apple , Foxconn also has close cooperation with major top manufacturing industries.
The person who controls the Foxconn Group is called Terry Gou, who led Foxconn to his current position step by step. But it is also true that he was blinded by his achievements and then lost himself.
In January 2010, a piece of news appeared on the front page of major media. A 19-year-old employee finally chose to jump off the building and commit suicide because he could not accept the high-intensity work pressure from Foxconn Group.
Since then, Foxconn has experienced employees jumping off buildings one after another, and by the end of the incident, a total of 13 young people chose to commit suicide. They used their lives to sue their dissatisfaction and protests to the society.
Foxconn jumps off the building
However, this has not had any impact on Foxconn, and Foxconn's development in the mainland will not be hindered. In mainland China, Terry Gou can still make a fortune by relying on the OEM orders of his financial backer's father Apple.
The face of capitalists has always been like this. Their way of doing business and being a human being is to put interests first. Everything else can be ignored, even if it is a blood relationship that is thicker than water.
In 2019, Terry Gou publicly stated in an interview with a media in Taiwan Province:
"The mainland has a bite of food because of me! The mainland cannot do without Foxconn !"
This is Terry Gou's famous remarks for food. He puts the friendship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait's blood-thicker than water after personal interests. In addition, he also made a lot of noise and belittled his own country.
Guo Taiming
borrowed a line from Qiao Family Courtyard:
"It's not you who made the Qiao family that made you successful, but the Qiao family that made you successful."
In contrast, the Foxconn Group led by Guo Taiming is the same. Foxconn does provide a large number of jobs for mainland personnel. But it is all because the mainland has a huge market foundation and also has rich policy benefits.
It can be said that the mainland and Foxconn have a mutual achievement, but Terry Gou does not seem to have realized this simple truth. While insulting his country, he welcomed and flattered the United States with a smile.
In the same year, the United States imposed sanctions on Huawei Group, and the United States banned all companies from doing business dealings with Huawei . directly pulled Huawei Group into the national blacklist. What choice did make in the face of this situation?
The United States restricts Huawei Group
Faced with such tough measures and attitudes in the United States, several companies have terminated their cooperation with Huawei one after another. In fact, this move is not only a restriction of Huawei by the United States, but also a restriction of China by the United States.
However, at this moment, Terry Gou asked Foxconn to suspend all business with Huawei Group and stop all production projects on Huawei's Foxconn production line.
This back stabbing behavior directly brought serious negative impacts to Terry Gou and Foxconn, and media and social public opinion were even more criticized.
This incident was the fuse that brought Foxconn Group down from the altar. Perhaps it was precisely because of the successive chain reactions that Guo Taiming made the decision to step down as chairman.
Foxconn
After this, Foxconn's life in China was like a thorn in his throat, and a considerable number of manufacturers directly suspended their cooperation with Foxconn.
As an entrepreneur who made his fortune by making a fortune in the Chinese market, Terry Gou did not understand the meaning of self-improvement and virtue. In him, we can see the most real image of capitalists.
Even so, Terry Gou still did not reflect. He wanted to use Foxconn's rise in the Southeast Asian market to tell countless Chinese people that Foxconn can live a stable life without China.
After not enjoying the bonus in the Chinese market, Terry Gou directly laid off 340,000 mainland employees. then invested US$5 billion in the Southeast Asian market and established many factories in India and Vietnam respectively.
Foxconn—Indian factory
Foxconn’s factories in India and Vietnam have completely reproduced the domestic industry model, from manual resources to workshop assembly lines, no difference from China.
According to the comprehensive national conditions of India and Vietnam, the labor force in these two countries is also extremely cheap. Guo Taiming was arrogant at this time and was determined to wait for the Indian and Vietnam factories to provide him with enough profits and profits.
Although the mode can be replicated, the labor cost is cheap. But Terry Gou also ignored a particularly important issue, which has become the most important part of the overwhelming Foxconn Group.
Infrastructure in India and Vietnam is extremely poor, and even the most basic power supply cannot be stable. At the same time, foreign countries have been very relaxed in controlling the epidemic, which has also caused a large number of workers to be infected with the new coronavirus.
The most important point is that Terry Gou mistakenly predicted the overall personnel quality of the Southeast region, and they are also cheap labor. The productivity of Indians is less than half that of Chinese people, and it is often accompanied by strikes and demonstrations. The combination of various factors of
makes Foxconn's development abroad extremely difficult.
The house is leaking and raining all night, and the boat is late and the wind is on the head. The next thing completely made Terry Gou feel disheartened and was unable to reverse the current situation.
After Foxconn failed to leave the Chinese market and enter Southeast Asia, Terry Gou's former funder "Apple" also began to gradually dilute his cooperation with Foxconn at this time.
Apple no longer handed over the OEM task to Foxconn alone, but turned to find several companies in China to cooperate. Among them, BYD and Luxshare Precision are the strongest and famous.
BYD foundry
But this is not the time for Terry Gou to sit and wait for death. After all, at this time, Foxconn still has the production order of Apple 13 in its hands.
Terming Guo is facing an extremely difficult choice at this time, in order to successfully complete the production tasks and reduce capital expenditures. What actions did Terry Gou make?
Faced with such a dilemma, Terry Gou could only choose to be a human being with his tail between his legs. He once again set his sights on the huge Chinese market, and he is going to make a comeback this time.
But his previous layoffs have angered the hearts of the Chinese people, and Foxconn's recruitment is particularly difficult at this time. For this reason, Foxconn can only significantly increase its salary and salary to gain a glimmer of hope.
Foxconn
But at this time, it is already a dream to recreate its previous glory. Guo Taiming stepped down as chairman of Foxconn Group in the same year and withdrew from the stage of history.
Terry Gou’s entrepreneurial path
Looking at Terry Gou’s life, it is no exaggeration to summarize it in the word “Legend”. His entrepreneurial process is full of ups and downs, and it is also quite inspiring.
We should look at things from two sides. Since we have already realized the ridiculous measures made by Terry Gou in his later years.Then let’s take a look at his entrepreneurial journey in his youth and learn and understand something from it.
Tai Ming Guo was born in 1950 and is from Taipei County, Taiwan Province, China. Although Terry Gou's ancestral home originated from the mainland, Taiwan did not make any suppression of his family because of this.
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After graduating from university, Guo Taiming met, got to know each other, and fell in love with the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong. Although there was a huge gap in family backgrounds, the two got together. After
, Guo Taiming started his first business by holding his parents' investment. He gathered many friends to jointly start a plastics company.
Just when they were ambitious, they encountered the global financial crisis . This also led to a crazy rise in prices, and Terry Gou and others were unable to gain a foothold in this capital game.
Terry Gou, Lin Shuru
With the partners' withdrawal one after another, Terry Gou was also mixed in his heart, but fortunately, Lin Shuru's encouragement and support were around him. For this reason, he is single and supports a broken company facing bankruptcy.
The two registered their marriage in the same year. Lin Shuru's father couldn't bear to have his daughter live a poor life with Terry Gou. So he gave Guo Taiming a lot of money in the name of investment, and it was with this money that he began to make a counterattack.
Guo Taiming used this money to start his transformation path. Due to sufficient funds, he was much more confident this time. He will open a factory wherever the industry is popular.
only took two years. Terry Gou regained the principal of his first entrepreneurship, which also gave him great confidence to continue to develop.
Terry Gou
Terry Gou is a very talented person in business. He can analyze the laws of the market and future development trends. Therefore, in the case of a gap in the OEM industry, he established , Hon Hai Group, and quickly captured the market.
. What really made Terry Gou reach glory was in 1988, when China issued a regulation this year. It is this regulation that has become an indispensable weight on Terry Gou's road to success.
1988, in order to ease the relationship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and to promote the economic development of the mainland . Therefore, a regulation was issued to allow Taiwanese businessmen to invest in the mainland, and Terry Gou noticed the business opportunities with his keen sense of smell.
After understanding the relevant regulations, Guo Taiming quickly went to Shenzhen for market inspection and research. In just half a year, Guo Taiming established Foxconn in Shenzhen.
Left second Guo Taiming—Shenzhen inspection
Soldiers are very fast, and Foxconn's rise immediately attracted the attention of many companies. Once famous brands such as Motorola and Nokia have handed over production orders to Foxconn.
As time goes by, Foxconn's business has spread all over the world. also became a world-class OEM factory until Foxconn met Apple.
The business empire created by Terry Gou has truly become a legend in the industry. So far, his entrepreneurial journey is full of inspiration.
But Terry Gou did not cherish this hard-won result, and he chose to abandon his country. Then he was in gang-up with the United States and colluded with each other.
Although Terry Gou has stepped down as chairman of Foxconn, he has focused on politics. Guo Taiming participated in the 2020 election in Taiwan Province, although the result ended in failure.
Terry Gou
But this can also show many of the thoughts in Terry Gou's heart. What is most amazing is that he expressed his firm support for Taiwan independence through the media. However, they donated a lot to the Democratic Progressive Party where Tsai Ing-wen is located, and no other party was left behind.
Guo Taiming is such a two-faced person. He can say anything for his own benefit.In his heart, there is never a firm belief.
In his heart, the country is always just a tool and carrier for him to make money, and he will never be proud and proud of the Chinese blood flowing through his body.
As a Chinese entrepreneur, Guo Taiming not only did not lend a helping hand when national enterprises were restricted by the US, but instead chose an ungrateful approach.
Trump, Terry Gou
Summary
A good entrepreneur does not only refer to the ability to make money, the most important thing is to have noble character.
Foxconn is a national enterprise. If Terry Gou was a patriotic person, the country would not stop supporting Foxconn. But whether it is business or life, Terry Gou made a serious mistake.
His ego made him leave the country behind, which is an insurmountable bottom line. is close to the United States and business transactions in itself.
As a businessman, Guo Taiming said these things are understandable, but from the moment he made insulting remarks to China. Things changed fundamentally, and he was no longer worthy of calling another Chinese.
Guo Taiming
We need to understand one truth: the relationship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait changes no matter how it changes. Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times, and this is an unchanging objective fact.
As a Chinese, the most basic requirement is patriotism. Patriotism is not just about shouting a few slogans, but about your own patriotism.
We must start from reality and use our own behavior to contribute to the country. No matter what class you are in, no matter whether you are poor or rich. We cannot forget our country, because this is a motherland that has nurturing us.
If you happen to be an entrepreneur or businessman in front of the screen, you must use this as a warning to gain experience and lessons from it. Only by caring about the country and respecting the people can enterprises grow and grow in a long way.
The author hopes that after reading this article, all readers can imprint patriotism in their hearts and make China's future stronger and brighter through their own efforts.
