[1] In 2008, Forbes ranked him as the 178th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$5.5 billion.

[citation needed] In 1995, Wang signed a contract with Marco Terragni (chairman of Italproducts) to create Inteplast, the biggest company in the world for the production of Cartonplast.

[11] His eldest son from his second marriage with Yang Chiao, Winston Wang, founded Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing with Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin in 2000.

[12] In 2011, Forbes estimated Cher Wang's personal fortune at $8.8 billion, making her the wealthiest individual in Taiwan at the time.

[15] The family struggles which followed his death led to the discovery that he had engaged in extensive tax evasion and had stashed billions of dollars offshore.