T sai Eng-meng is a self-made Taiwanese billionaire and the chairman of the Want Want China Holdings, a massive food and beverage company. He inherited his father's small food processing company in the late 1970s and transformed it into a snack food powerhouse. His career-defining move came in the 1990s when he became one of the first Taiwanese businessmen to invest heavily in mainland China. He introduced his company's signature product, rice crackers, to the mainland market, where they became a massive and ubiquitous success.

He has since built Want Want into one of China's largest and most recognizable food and beverage brands, with a vast portfolio of products that includes rice crackers, flavored milk drinks, and other snacks. In addition to his food empire, he has built a major media conglomerate in Taiwan, with ownership of newspapers and television stations, which has made him an influential and often controversial figure due to his pro-Beijing political stance.