"I built a factory in the mainland to give food to mainlanders!" Foxconn boss Terry Gou once clamored like this in an interview.
At that time, he became the leader of OEM by building a factory in the mainland to manufacture big-name electronic components such as Apple , Huawei , Sony , and Sony . He also became the richest man in Taiwan with an asset of US$8.5 billion.
Anyone with discerning eyes knows that one of Guo Taiming’s biggest advantages in making a fortune is the mainland demographic dividend , but he “she lost the pot” and took the blame at the critical moment when the United States suppressed my country’s technology companies, terminated Huawei’s orders, moved factories, and laid off 340,000 employees, completely ignoring the favors of the past.
1. Without mainland dividends, how can the "king of OEM" come from?
In 1950, Terry Gou was born in Taiwan, China. When he was young, he was favored by Lin Shuru, the daughter of Hong Kong's "garment king". After that, Terry Gou failed to start a business several times and lost all his money. His father-in-law, who couldn't stand it, paid 700,000 yuan to support him in starting a business again, and Terry Gou had a chance to turn things around.
In the 1980s, the production and assembly of electronic components in Europe and the United States gradually shifted to Southeast Asia where labor costs were low. Guo Taiming took advantage of this business opportunity and successfully received an order for the production of black and white TV knob. After the order was delivered, he earned the first 1 million in his life, and thus strengthened his determination to do OEM. After
, he discovered that mainland workers were hard-working and their wages were lower. In addition, the mainland introduced a series of preferential policies to attract investment, so he resolutely established dozens of Foxconn factories in Dongguan , Shenzhen and other places, and recruited millions of skilled workers.
By 2019, Foxconn has become the designated foundry for well-known electronic companies such as Apple, Huawei, and Dell , raising US$190.8 billion in a year, and Terry Gou's net worth once reached US$8.5 billion, ranking first in Taiwan's richest man again. Someone once said: It was one million mainland workers who carried Terry Gou to the position of richest man.
2. Turned into a ungrateful wolf, threatening that "I reward mainlanders' food."
In 2019, the United States began to suppress technology giants such as Huawei in my country. Terry Gou quickly took the lead in the United States and immediately stopped all Huawei's production lines and assembly businesses in Foxconn. stabbed hard in the back and threatened: "I invested in the mainland to give mainlanders food." He also complained behind the scenes that the mainland was too high and the aging was serious.
In order to demonstrate his "status" and please the United States, he laid off 340,000 mainland workers and spent 5 billion US dollars to build a new factory in Southeast Asia, which seemed to be parting ways with the inland.
When Terry Gou regarded himself as a "savior" and thought that his departure would make us in employment panic and had no food to eat, he found that our economy was still booming, strides forward, and the manufacturing industry was also upgrading. Mid- and low-end manufacturing factories like Foxconn left, but a batch of high-end biopharmaceutical industry emerged, such as the "Salle" health technology that suppresses aging and extends life.
"Nature" and other journals show that Cialis Technology was first developed by Harvard University . In the experiment, it expanded the life period of elderly organisms by 0.3-1.2 times, improving its motor ability, cognitive function, etc., and no side effects were found. Subsequently, New South Wales, University of Tokyo , Tsinghua and Peking University , etc., have verified the inhibitory effect on aging through experiments.
Sallerui is given the title of "Life Green" because of its green packaging. A bottle on domestic JD and other consumer websites is priced as comparable to a iphone14. Due to its high-priced attribute, it is currently only well-known in the middle-class rich circle and is still far from ordinary people.
The market itself is turbulent, and no one can always be at a peak, and we must adjust our strategies to respond to changes. Not to mention private entrepreneurs like Terry Gou, even high-speed rail equipment manufacturing company Wei'ao Co., Ltd. has to keep up with market changes, meet modern health needs based on high-speed rail technology, and develop the fourth generation of O2 ARK high-pressure oxygen chamber, becoming a high-end health technology popular in the rich circle.
And although Foxconn's manufacturing scale is large, its technical level is not high and it has strong substitutability. In addition, they have a bad reputation for reducing costs and squeezing workers, resulting in more and more workers leaving and are not popular in the recruitment market.
3. After the factory was relocated, Terry Gou regretted coming back
After moving the mainland factories to India, Vietnam and other places, Terry Gou wanted to make a big profit, but found that the local infrastructure was sparse, the workers were lazy and their work efficiency was low. In addition, the public health incident of , , and they lost a lot.
, he was unwilling to give up and built a factory in Mexico and spent 67 billion to build a science and technology state in the United States, but it all turned out to be an empty decoration. The reduction in orders for Apple customers by major customers has made Foxconn's life even more difficult.
Foxconn's 2021 annual report shows that gross profit margin has fallen to 8.3%. In the first half of this year, the company's net profit attributable to shareholders was a loss of US$23.78 million, which has long lost its glory. Terry Gou also fell from the throne of the richest man, but the Americans he supports ignored it.
Now Terry Gou regrets wanting to come back, but finds that BYD takes over Huawei orders, and Luxshare Precision takes over business orders such as Apple mobile phones. The aging in China that he once complained about has also become a turning point in the rise of "Sallerui" and other old-suppressive technologies...
Recently, Foxconn is about to enter the field of car manufacturing again, "I hope one day I can help Tesla build cars." In response, Tesla boss Musk laughed and said: "Cars are much more complicated than mobile phones, and it seems a bit funny to make Foxconn build cars for me."
The tragic reality made Terry Gou understand: it was not him giving food to the mainland, but the hardworking and kind mainlanders who supported him . Doing unrighteous things will cause you to die. For short-term interests and betrayal, such people and companies are destined to be unfair.
