Lin Ming-cheng (; born on 3 January 1943, Itabashi Town, Kaizan District,

Taihoku Prefecture Taihoku Prefecture (台北州; ''Taihoku-shū'') was an administrative division of Taiwan created in 1920, during Japanese rule. The prefecture consisted of modern-day Keelung, New Taipei City, Taipei and Yilan County. Its government office, ...

Japanese Taiwan The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became a dependency of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The sho ...

(modern-day

Banqiao District Banqiao District () is a district and the seat of New Taipei City, Taiwan. It has the third-highest population density in Taiwan, with over . Until the creation of New Taipei City, Banqiao (then transliterated as Banciao or Pan-ch'iao) was an in ...

)) is a Taiwanese

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who is a member of the seventh generation of Lin family from Banciao, one of the richest families of

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. He is the only son of

Lin Hsiung-cheng Lin Hsiung-cheng (; 5 November 1888 - 27 November 1946), born in Pangkio, Tamsui District, Taipeh Prefecture, Fujian-Taiwan Province, Taiwan under Qing rule, Qing Taiwan (modern-day Banqiao District, New Taipei, Taiwan), was a Taiwanese banker an ...

and a grandson of Lin Erh-kang. In June 2008, ''

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'' magazine ranked him as the 20th-richest person in Taiwan. He is serving as the vice chairman of Hua Nan Financial Holdings, and the director of Hua Nan Bank of China.

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