Kao Ching-yuen

Kao Ching-yuen (Traditional Chinese: 高清愿; born May 24, 1929) is a Taiwanese businessman. Kao was born in a moneyless family located in Syuejia, Tainan. He is the founder and chairman of Uni-president, the largest food corporation of Taiwan, based in Tainan County, mainly actives in Taiwan, Mainland China and Southeast Asia.

Kao began to serve as an workman in his teenage. He got into the Taiwan Spinning (台南紡織), a textile processing company in 1954, and became a manager later. Kao left Taiwan Spinning in 1966, and established the Uni-president in 1967. He is also known as the "Konosuke Matsushita of Taiwan".