Chang Yung-fa Chang Yung-fa belong to the older generation of entrepreneurs in Taiwan. Although he is just a vocational school at night the Ministry of Education, there is no prominent family background, just like the game "Age of Discovery" in the hero as the cause of a boat and old cargo ship from age 20 only four or five hundred tons of started, after 40 years hard, and now has a huge fleet of nearly 150 container ships. 

Currently, the Evergreen Group has developed into a set of sea, air, inland transportation, container, hotels, manufacturing and other services as one of the multinational group. In addition to the flagship Evergreen Marine, there were ten affiliated companies, namely transport Evergreen, Evergreen Heavy Industries, UNI shipping, Evergreen International, Evergreen Container, UNI Air, EVA Air, long hung create, Ronggang Heavy, Evergreen empty kitchen and other companies. According to conservative estimates from the bottom Chang Jung has assets of nearly $ 2 billion, was ranked in 1999 by Forbes rich list of 241.

With "Evergreen" traveled around the world, Chang Yung-fa has described himself as "Son of the Sea." Indeed born in the port city of Keelung, Taiwan, Chang Yung-fa childhood growing up in the sea, are inherently doomed to "eat the sea." Chang Yung-fa's father was the ship's carpenter, at the age of 18, he died of a shipwreck, attributed widowed mother raising seven children. However, Chang Yung-fa does not succumb to hardship environment. He was brought up never to reveal the backbone of this bow, but forged his adversity to create a new world of spirit. Taipei business career from school, Chang Yung-fa shipping company went to work. Junior fit of Chang Yung-fa study hard, work hard, from the earliest when the clerk, a step promoted to purser, tally clerk, two, mate, and finally upgrade to flight test a long license. These rough experience, Chang Yung-fa future career development plays an important role. 

 

Chang Yung-fa young greatest desire is to have an own boat and his own knowledge and experience of shipping, to be cast to play. Early 1960s, Chang Yung-fa seize the opportunity to Taiwan's economic take-off, the founder of Evergreen Marine Corp., with himself as chairman. Chang Yung-fa was the only old boat, a start and ran others dare not run in the East. Middle East routes was not popular, well-intentioned people advised him not to open this route, because the Far East shipping company is ready to ship alliance jointly deal with the newly added company. "Outrageous, why and told me not to open? I must be open," Chang Yung-fa said angrily. As a result, Evergreen first voyage in the Middle East, you can only install some heavy iron bars from Japan, although the initial hardships, but Evergreen Marine has always been to provide better transportation service quality, and gradually get recognition and support shippers. When setbacks entrepreneurship, but inspire Chang Yung-fa greater will to fight. 

 

In the late 1970s was the golden age of the world's shipping, the Western developed countries have built fast, economical, safe container ships. To catch up with the world trend, Chang Yung-fa decided to develop container. 1975, Evergreen Marine Corporation's first container ship into the water, first voyage scheduled flights to the United States east coast of Taiwan. July 1984, Evergreen Marine to create an unprecedented global and more east and west two-way full regular container routes, lay Evergreen leading position in the global container shipping business, the size of Evergreen fleet, has been living since the global container fleet the first, Chang Yung-fa is also known as the world's "super shipping emperor."