六十载恩爱如昔 林绍良夫妇狮城庆钻石婚
玉融乡音241期据新加坡《联合晚报》、《南洋商报》、《北京侨办网》等媒体报道，世界著名华人企业家、世界福清同乡联谊会主席林绍良先生暨夫人李淑珍女士结婚６０周年纪念庆典，４月１５日、１６日晚上在狮城香格里拉酒店隆重举行。侨领林绍良的家人，各界名流、贤达，社团领袖及家乡福清市领导陈瑞麒一行共二千人应邀出席钻石婚庆典。
据了解，侨领林绍良先生１９１７年出生于福清市海口镇牛宅村。１９３８年，２１岁的他从家乡漂洋过海来到印尼东爪哇的古突士，与朋友合股经营土产生意，而妻子李淑珍就在他办事处对面的学校念书。近水楼台，比李淑珍年长１０岁的林绍良先生，以成熟和稳重打动她的芳心，两颗年轻的心很快就联系在一起。当时，日军占领印尼，因局势动荡不安，在李淑珍父母的催促下，两人刚相识了３个月便匆匆结婚。６０载转眼过去，虽然林绍良先生已高龄８８，李淑珍女士也７８岁，可两老鬓发银白却依然恩爱如初。
林绍良先生曾称赞妻子是世界上最好的太太，并强调没有家庭幸福的男人，事业上不会成功。正是有着夫人的支持，林绍良先生充分发挥其经营魄力及才华，以独到的商业眼光，成为名震全球的“百业之王”：“丁香烟大王”、“木材大王”、“水泥大王”、“金融大王”、“面粉大王”、“纺织大王”、“钢铁大王”等等，财富遍布工商界和金融服务业。他也是福清人引以自豪的楷模和骄傲。
(福建侨联网 2004年5月11日 09:14:42)
林绍良（英文名:
LIEM SIOE LIONG，1917年9月10日－），出生在中国福建省福州市福清县海口镇牛宅村，1938年移居印度尼西亚中爪哇。他被认为是印度尼西亚最成功的企业家，虽然他被怀疑利用行贿政府官员敛财。在过去的一段时间里，他是印度尼西亚最富有的人。由于和那时的总统苏哈托良好关系和政府高级官员的合作，他的生意几乎没有竞争者。他垄断了印度尼西亚的水泥和面粉。他拥有一家生产印度尼西亚最受欢迎的方便面公司-Indofood Sukses Makmur。他曾经拥有印度尼西亚最大的非政府银行-亚洲中心银行（BCA），直到1998年被印度尼西亚政府充公。由于他的垄断生意引起很多人的不满和怨言，在1998年5月雅加达骚乱中，他的大厦被暴徒夷为平地。不过他儿子林逢生领导下的新三林集团正在在东南亚和快速发展中的中国东山再起。2004年三林集团的营业额达到200亿美金.
林绍良每年3月初都回福州福清扫基。
林绍良Liem Sioe Liong (Indonesia)
Chairman of Salim Group,
Economic Advisor to The Indonesian Government
Liem shaking hands with former Indonesian
President Suharto (Image from Asiaweek)
Biodata
BORN: July 16, 1916, Fujian province, China
EDUCATION: Junior high school, Fujian
FAMILY: Married, four children
Billionaire Indonesian Chinese Liem Sioe Liong, whose wealth rivals American
tycoons like Du Pont and Rockefeller, has been crowned one of the world’s
six richest. His close ties to President Suharto date to the early days of the
republic, and he single-handedly established Indonesia's largest corporate
group (Indocement, Indofood) as well as huge businesses in the Philippines,
Thailand, Hong Kong and China. However, he was reluctant to publicly list
some of his Indonesian companies, probably to avoid scrutiny.
His career epitomises the meteoric rise in Chinese fortunes under Suharto
and sheds light on the close ties between the community and Indonesia's
rulers. He once said: “Half of one’s success can be attributed to chance
and opportunity, while the other half is sheer grit and determination.” This
is his personal motto and reflection of his own struggles to get to the top.
Liem’s Younger Days
Liem Sioe Liong was born in Haikou, Fujian province in 1916. He was an avid
learner with a stunning memory, and was enrolled in his village’s private
school at age 7. Unfortunately, poverty put a stop to his schooling days and
at 15, his family rented a shophouse for him in the village to run a stall selling
noodle-soup. After the 918 Incident, his stall was forced to shut down
amidst the pandemonium of war. In 1935, Liem’s father passed away, and
the family burden fell upon the shoulders of his mother. At this time, the
village was rife with rumours of the Kuomintang seizing able-bodied young
men for conscription. His mother eventually told him to strike it out in
Southeast Asia (Nanyang), partly to take his chances, but mostly to avoid
conscription.
The young Liem migrated from Fujian province in the 1920s, arriving in
Indonesia with hardly a penny to his name. He was barely 20 when he
reached Indonesia, and spent his initial days staying with an uncle, helping
out at his uncle’s provision shop. However, the provision shop’s business
was very thin, and finally, Liem decided to start his own hawker business
selling coffee powder.
The days of peddling coffee powder were grueling. He had to wake up
everyday at midnight to grind the coffee beans into coffee powder, and wrap
the powder in newspaper, into packets of 50g or 100g. Rain or shine, he rode
his bicycle to places as far as 70 km away to peddle his wares. But hardship
only served to strengthen his will, and through his contacts with his
customers, he got to know many people.
Indonesia was originally a colony of the Netherlands. On 7th December 1941,
the Japanese waged the Pacific War, and invaded Indonesia. In August 1945,
the Japanese were finally defeated, and Indonesia became a republic.
However, the Dutch returned to reclaim its lost colony, and war broke out
yet again.
Liem’s big break came when he acquainted the young nationalist commander
Suharto during the war of independence. He saw which way the wind was
blowing and started using his trading network to help the independence
movement, smuggling supplies and, according to some, arms to the rebels.
While Liem was a military supplier during the war of independence, he spotted
an opportunity in cloves. Cloves are a vital ingredient in Indonesian-style
cigarettes or kreteks. By exploiting maritime connections in the Fujian
overseas community, Liem was able to get more cloves to more kretek
factories faster and cheaper than his competitors. He quickly became a
millionaire.
Post-Independence Days
Liem, unlike Riady who was arrested and deported for pro-independence a
ctivities, was careful not to attract the notice of the authorities. Following
independence, Liem assessed the situation and decided to employ the
strategy of first pursuing businesses to meet the people’s basic need for
clothing, food, lodging and transportation (衣食住行), and then diversify later
into other businesses.
His first venture was in textiles, followed by rubber (for manufacturing tyres),
nails (which were in short supply), bicycle parts and soap. His business
formula was an instant hit, and wealth came pouring in. Under Mr Suharto,
the route to success for Chinese Indonesians lay in finding a patron. And
patrons did not come bigger than the president himself. With Suharto’s
patronage, Liem received monopolies in flour, clove importation and cement.
In 1969, Liem made a proposal to the Government to set up an flour mill in
Indonesia to cope with the critical shortage of flour the post-indepedence
days. His proposal was swiftly approved, and he was granted 2/3 monopoly
rights to the national flour production output. By the 80s, Liem’s flour mills
were able to meet 80percent of the nation’s demand for flour, and was the largest
flour mill in Asia.
While this was going on, Liem never gave up his clove business. In 1986,
Liem received sole importer right from the government to import cloves into
Indonesia, and he started two companies to handle clove imports. The
amount of imports handled by these companies is approximately 90percent of the
clove output in Africa’s largest clove-producing countries.
In 1975, Liem built his cement factory (狄斯水泥). Annual production capacity
rocketed from 500,000 tonnes to 1 million tones, reaching 2 million tones by
1978 with the construction of a larger facility, and becoming the largest
cement conglomerate in Indonesia.
A Formula of Diversification
After Mr Suharto began implementing his new economic policy, Liem began
moving into banking and other businesses, including textiles, chemicals and
property. Rich beyond the dreams of avarice, Liem is involved in everything.
In 1957, Liem started his own bank with help from Bangkok Bank. In the 70s,
he diversified into properties, construction and tourism. In the late 70s, Liem
moved into the auto industry. Now, Liem’s empire covers textiles, cement,
chemicals, electronics, forestry, fishery, freight and transportation, insurance,
finance, property, gold and precious stones, hotels, medical equipment,
communications, metals etc. The Salim Group’s headquarter is based in
Jakarta, with some 60 subsidiaries across four continent, including countries
like Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Netherlands and the USA.
Business for Liem is a virtuous circle. Salim Group banks manage his trading
empire, which in turn transports his raw materials to his factories, which
produce goods sold in shops rented from his property interests.
Liem has passed the baton to a new generation. Anthony Salim now takes
care of day-to-day operations of the Salim empire.
Source:
Asia Power50 1996
http://special.scmp.com/wchal/background/ZZZKYOJ7CPC.html
http://www.wiseman.com.cn/gcxmavin/enterpriser/enterprisers/02.htm
