Recall that 1982, I departed my own businesses because my father discovered that Phenolic Board (PCB) which I applied to my electronic products with extreme harmful elements. I left my home town- Tainan for Taipei to serve a toy firm named “Mattel Ltd Taiwan”, it's very easy to rescue that firm's Barbie Dolls by my highly skills, then the said firm closed Taiwan plant to seek for the lower cost to leave thousands of local unemployment people in 1986.
My wife, Linda Din took action to go out of her kitchen for starting a business to solve the unemployment problem because she heard those jobless friends venting their grievances. Linda realized that “Industrial Out-Movement is the chief culprit of jobless problem”, therefore, she invented a multilateral trading system named “Global Channel-TES” for “working at home to earn the global money”, and brought to APEC 1997 in Vancouver Canada for promoting that “One eStore One Business One Job for circulating the goods of vulnerable enterprises fluently in this welfare channel to gain better access to the global market.”
Linda said that “An Infrastructure w/o spending any public dollars(國家不花錢的重大建設)”, the concept was from “People through voluntary service to others”, the “Global Channel-TES” was won the best practice of helping 240 million people start a business at APEC MM 2003 when Linda played the role as a keynote speaker to address the needs of SMEs, the proposal was admired as a “Golden Net” for free movement of people, goods, services and capital. The most importance was the power from private sector, it’s no need to spend any one public penny.
Unfortunately, we're besieged by the entity of corruption on the island to hinder our paths of approaching the goal—to resolve the global jobless issues for rebuilding the countries. But I strongly believe that “The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn.” I must give my thanks to the Lord Almighty, in all these things we're more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Eventually, I attended the APEC CEO Summit again to proclaim my contribution: “IIA-TES”. I said “Invest in America for the economic stimulus is the best way of rebuilding the global economy; yes, we can create those jobs right in America and lay the foundation for lasting prosperity.” to have the enthusiastic feed-back.
The gladdest should be at reading the APEC 2009 Leader's Declaration, Leaders declared that “We will maintain our economic stimulus policies until a durable economic recovery has clearly taken hold.”
Some of leaders asked “How we can participate to make it?” I answered “Run the pilot exercise in California USA to make it. We can trade the royalty to raise fund for listing on NASDAQ for accomplishment of the affairs.”
We knew that infrastructure should be pointing those airports, seaports, highways, railways and etc. Above mentioned infrastructures must spend huge money of the governments. But, Taiwan Former Governor Mr. Hsieh Tong-Ming who called out that “An Infrastructure without spending the public money” named “Hsiao Kong Plan” in 1972.
“Hsiao Kong” means “Small Wealth”, extending the meaning is achieving the common prosperity on society.
Mr. Hsieh provided people a tool named “Living Room is Plant” to encourage the rest manpower of Taiwan pouring into the production.
The result of acting the Hsiao Kong Plan until June 30, 1978 was “Taiwan's poverty families were reduced from 470,000 to a few thousand.”—It's a specific record in the history of Taiwan.
I went to see Mr. Hsieh with Linda in 1996 on Hsieh's 90th birthday, the old gentleman told us “Hsiao Kong Plan was an infrastructure without spending the government's money, only a good policy came out that will benefit tremendous people to deliver those most in need from poverty.”
I admired that great vision and put it into practice for achieving the common prosperity. But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Prepared by Li-Chang Kuo
