# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wang-yung-ching
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:05:34.978Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wang-yung-ching"
name: "Wang Yung-ching"
slug: "wang-yung-ching"
description: "Wang Yung-ching, also called Y.C. Wang, was a Taiwanese businessman. He was best known for being the chairman of Formosa Plastics Corporation, one of Taiwan's foremost plastic manufacturing establishments until his retirement in June 2006, where he stepped down at the age of 89. In 2008, Forbes ranked him as the 178th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$5.5 billion."
tagline: "Taiwanese plastics entrepreneur (1917–2008)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1917-01-18"
deathDate: "2008-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.024769333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump