Speaking of the richest family in Taiwan, many people think it is the Wang Yongqing family. Wang Yongqing is not only famous in Taiwan, but also respected in the entire Chinese world.

Speaking of Taiwan’s richest family, many people think it is the Wang Yongqing family. How high is Wang Yongqing's status in Taiwan? After his death, Guo Taiming also went to worship him in person. Wang Yongqing is not only famous in Taiwan, but also respected in the entire Chinese world. The Formosa Plastics Group founded by Wang Yongqing is indeed amazing. The four listed companies under it are known as the four golden flowers of Formosa Plastics .

When Formosa Plastics was at its peak, a company's revenue accounted for about 5% of Taiwan's GDP that year. However, although Wang Yongqing is rich, he is not the richest, because the richest one is always the Cai family in Taiwan. Many celebrities and wealthy people in Taiwan have the surname Cai, which shows that Cai is definitely a big surname in Taiwan.

So what is the origin of this Cai family? They are the brothers Cai Wanchun , Cai Wanlin , Cai Wancai . They actually have a big brother, but the big brother passed away very early. These three brothers are well known to everyone in the business world of Taiwan. The two core companies under their family, Cathay Group and Fubon Group, are also among the Fortune 500 in the world. A family can also show their strength if they make two Fortune 500 companies.

On Taiwan’s wealth list, the second generation of members of the Cai family now occupy the second to fifth positions together, with a total assets exceeding US$40 billion. However, these are just wealth on the books. Their family has been rich in Taiwan for decades, so there must be a lot of assets on the dark side.

Many people say Li Ka-shing's family is the richest, but in fact, it may be a bit worse than the Cai family. The Li Ka-shing family is just a Fortune 500 family, but the Cai family has two. Some people say that Li Ka-shing’s open assets in are not as many as the Cai family’s open assets, but there are more hidden assets than them. In fact, the overall strength of the Cai family should be stronger. After all, Taiwan has a much larger area than Hong Kong and its market size is larger. The Cai family has too many businesses in Taiwan. The entire financial industry, from insurance, banks, trusts, etc., is almost all controlled by them, and real estate is also controlled by them.

Cai Wanchun had a stroke in 1979. At that time, his assets had exceeded 10 billion. Later, he divided his business into five, allowing his three sons to manage with his two younger brothers. Cathay Trust is under the responsibility of the eldest son, Cai Chennan, , Linyuan Enterprise is under the leadership of the third brother Cai Wanlin, Guoshu Enterprise is under the leadership of the second son, Cai Chenzhou, , Xinglai Group is under the leadership of the third son, Cai Chenyang, and Cathay's earliest company, Cathay Products Insurance, was under the leadership of the fourth brother, Cai Wancai, and Fubon Group was established.

Speaking of Cai Wanchun's eldest son Cai Chennan, many people may not be familiar with it, but many people must know one thing, that is, more than ten years ago, gambling king Stanley Ho once invested more than 60 million yuan to buy it from a mysterious buyer. This mysterious buyer is actually Cai Chennan.

Back then, Cai Chennan collected four zodiac bronze beasts including horse head and ox head , and later all of them took action and successfully made 100 million yuan. Cai Chennan is also a world-renowned collector. He once spent more than 1 million to buy Qianlong Jade Seal , and this treasure was later sold for more than 400 million. Cai Chennan collected thousands of rare cultural relics in his life, and these alone were priceless.

How did the Cai family make a fortune? When Cai Wanchun was born, their family was still very poor. His parents are both farmers and live in the countryside. The Cai family has been farmers for generations. Cai Wanchun also dropped out of school when she was very young, and then their family moved from the countryside to Taipei.

This decision was very critical. Since then, Cai Wanchun said goodbye to rural life and lived in big cities, which also inspired his sense of business. After growing up, Cai Wanchun discovered that there was a lot of agricultural products in the countryside, and people in the city could not buy anything. So Cai Wanchun went to the countryside to purchase agricultural products, then transported them to big cities for sale, and successfully earned his first pot of gold in his life. Afterwards, Cai Wanchun invested in grocery stores and other businesses. At the age of 23, Cai Wanchun successfully bought a 4-story building with a lot of funds he had accumulated and opened a Dawan Trading Company.After

Cai Wanchun's business continued to grow and became bigger and bigger, and he also invested in hotels, factories, etc., and his business began to spread throughout all walks of life in Taiwan. In his 40s, Taiwan's financial industry began to develop, and Cai Wanchun entered the financial industry and became the chairman of Taipei's 10th Credit Union. In fact, there is another key to the development of the Cai Wanchun family, that is, at that time, Cai Wanchun was recognized by the Jiang family. To put it bluntly, the Cai Wanchun family is also a political and business family. Li Ka-shing naturally cannot compare with such a family.