Tsai Eng-meng

Tsai Eng-meng (born 1957) is a businessman who lives in Taiwan. He is well-known for his leadership of the Want Want food company and his family's later acquisition of various news media companies in Taiwan. He also chairman of the snack food company Want Want China. He was the richest person in Taiwan in 2017.

Early life
Tsai was born in 1957, in Datong District, Taipei, the son of Tsai A-Shi, who founded a canned fish business in 1962.

Career
Tsai succeeded his father as chairman of Want Want in 1987.

According to Forbes, Tsai Eng-meng has a net worth of $5.9 billion, as of January 2017.

Although not a politician, he remains politically active. Some people describe him as a strong supporter of Chinese unification. In 2012 he said that "unification will happen sooner or later."

Personal life
He lives in Taiwan but often travels back and forth to Shanghai, China. His older son, Kevin Tsai runs the family's media empire of TV stations and newspapers. His younger son Matthew Tsai (Tsai Wang-Chia, born 1984) is the chief operating officer of Want Want China. He is a follower of Buddhism.