Zhao Weiguo was sentenced to death for committing crimes, Xinjiang shepherds went to the Ziguang merger to rise and fall

He once praised Haikou to buy the former chairman of the China Unigroup, Zhao Wei, who stepped down from the territorial power and merged the joint venture department. According to the latest report from the Chinese media, he pointed out that due to a series of violations of rituals, such as defiling, treason, and illegal profit, he was sentenced to death for the crime of defiling. The term was carried out for two years, and he ended up with political rights and did not accept all his personal property.

In fact, in the modern history of Chinese semiconductor industry, Unigroup and its former chairman Zhao Weiguo are undoubtedly an extremely controversial and profound existence. Under the helm of Zhaowei, the Unigroup has become a powerful force that has made the global semiconductor industry, especially the Taiwanese industry, fostered the nerves of the industry.

Xinjiang shepherds went to Beijing Tsinghua University to establish a human body

According to previous media reports, Zhao Wei was not from a good family. His parents were sent to the Saudi County of Xinjiang to support the construction of the border areas. In childhood, they shepherded sheep and fed pigs in Xinjiang, and needed to take care of their younger siblings. In 1985, he became the first person in Saudi Arabia to be admitted to Tsinghua University in Beijing. He first came into contact with the source of semiconductors and Taiwan. He was a book called "Silicon Valley Hot" brought back from Taiwan by his classmate father in his junior year. The PC revolution and semiconductor legends described in the book gave him the idea of ​​entrepreneurial thoughts in his mind.

After graduating from the Institute of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, Zhao Weiguo joined Unigroup as an engineer in 1996, and later transferred to Tongfang Holdings. In 2000, it established the only semiconductor listed company under Tsinghua Holdings, Tsinghua Tongfang Microelectronics. However, he thought it was not interesting to work in a state-owned enterprise, so he left the Qinghua system and founded the Jiankun Group. Moreover, after leaving Tongfang, Zhao Wei returned to Xinjiang and invested in real estate and coal, which happened to be the glorious period when local real estate prices rose and China's bulk raw materials flew. This earned him a very impressive pot of gold.

Despite leaving the Tsinghua system later, he continued to donate to Tsinghua University, and even donated money to build a history museum, and promised to donate 70% of his personal property to Tsinghua in the future, showing a strong alumni relationship. It is precisely because of his past experience in helping Tongfang to start a creative career, his own career success and deep alumni relationship that Tsinghua Holdings has retrieved him from Tsinghua in the face of danger of Tsinghua Group. However, it was reported that he had a very personal relationship with Hu Haifeng, the son of former President Hu Feng. In the past, Hu Haifeng also studied in the Department of Management at Tsinghua University and also held a key position in the company of the predecessor of the Unigroup. This allowed Zhaowei Country to take over the position of responsible person of the Unigroup, and this relationship should have put a lot of effort into it.

Commercial operations create a generation of merger kings

Later, Zhao Weiguo obtained 49% of the shares of Unigroup through his own Jiankun Group and became the chairman. After taking over Tsinghua Unigroup, Jiankun Group became a purely held company, and Zhaowei Country invested almost all resources into Tsinghua Unigroup. Later, in business operations, Zhaowei Guojian said that "if you don't know anything about business, you must find a business that you feel. He is not unfamiliar with the semiconductor field. He once founded Tongfang Guoxin, and now the company provides identity chips to 80% of residents in China. However, he also knew that it would take a long time to convert technology into business, and Unigroup did not have the money to wait. Moreover, because it helped Tongfang purchase Jiangxi wireless factory and develop military industry, it changed the mindset of mergers. "I am also better at combining and purchasing, and I started my business by combining and purchasing," said Zhao Weiguo.

The biggest ability of Zhaowei's country is to integrate resources and combine the common interests of all parties to achieve goals, just like integrating the resources and needs of different people to deliver a table of delicious dishes. Under the leadership of Zhaowei Country, Unigroup started its business by purchasing information at high-supervision prices and Chindiko. Then he bought HP's Huasan Communications, invested in WD, a major American hard drive manufacturer, and even made a stake in Taiwan's memory seal. These movements shocked the Taiwanese industry.

The industry believes that the merger development information is the cornerstone of Zhao Wei's status in semiconductor industry, and it is this success that has enabled him to enter a series of subsequent large-scale mergers. Taking the exhibition and the merger of Banditko as an example, this not only conforms to the policy direction of the Chinese government to encourage the development of integrated circuits, but also found a focus for Tsinghua University's enterprises. Through Tsinghua's memorization, it has obtained large low-interest loan support from China's import and export banks, national development banks, etc. In 2015, Intel even invested RMB 9 billion in stake in 20% of the shares of Unigroup, the main company of Unigroup, which integrates exhibition information and 20% of the shares of Unigroup, which is a major company under the Unigroup. This transaction can be converted to recognize the value of Unigroup's up to RMB 45 billion, while Unigroup initially purchased the International Unigroup and 20% of the shares of Unigroup, which cost only RMB 16 billion. This cooperation has made external investors crazy, and Zhanshang has also gained strong technical and business support from Intel.

In the face of the outside world's impression that he is generous in his wealth and purchases at a high price, Zhao Weiguo claims that he is actually very conservative. He once shared his experience and pointed out that you must leave a lot to do anything and have sufficient preparations. Moreover, before the merger, you should not keep looking at it carefully and distinguish between true and false. Once you have confirmed it, you will eat. He actually refused many merger cases that were sent to the door. Zhao Weiguo once said that Unigroup originally made of copper, but later became gold, and hoped to become pure gold in the future. His ambitions have been gradually promoted, but at the same time it has become the collective concern of Taiwan, South Korea, the United States and other countries.

Defiled and illegal profit-making are sentenced to death

However, this once-commanded king ended up falling into the fortress due to his corruption. On May 14, 2025, the Intermediate People's Court of Jilin City, Jilin Province held a trial and judgment on the case of Zhaowei's country defiling, illegal profit for friends, and breach of trust and harming the interests of listed companies.. Among them, the court found that from 2018 to 2021, Zhaowei Country used its job convenience to share with specific ties, allowing companies actually controlled by specific ties to purchase real estate that should be purchased by Unigroup at a low price, and illegally occupied a value of RMB 470 million.

In addition, from 2014 to 2021, Zhaowei State used its employment convenience to hand over the unit profitable business to a specific person, or purchased services from a specific person company at a price clearly higher than the market, resulting in a direct economic loss of RMB 890 million. In 2019, the listed company directors who were actually controlled by them also rented the company's projects to specific related companies at a price clearly lower than the market, resulting in the listed company suffering economic losses of RMB 46.45 million.

In this regard, the Chinese court believed that Zhao Wei's behavior constituted the crime of defilement, illegal profit for friends and brute-mindedness to harm the interests of listed companies. Because he defrauded the huge amount of money and caused the country's interests to suffer a special major loss, he should be sentenced to death for his crimes. At the same time, illegal profits and breach of trust and harming the interests of listed companies have also caused special major losses, and should be punished in accordance with the law and punished for defilement.

Are there any room for imagination in the judgment result?

The statement also stated that if Zhao Weiguo confessed his crime after being arrested, he would actively confess some of the crimes that the agency had not yet grasped, and the crime of breach of trust and harming the interests of listed companies had the intention to surrender himself, confess and repent, and he would definitely return the money and all the money-exchange involved had been recovered and had made significant contributions.

In the end, the Chinese court sentenced Zhao Wei to death for the crime of taint, which was executed for two years, and ended up with political rights and did not accept all personal property; he was sentenced to five years in prison and 10 million RMB for illegal profits; he was sentenced to three years in prison and 2 million RMB for breach of trust and harming the interests of listed companies. The court finally decided to enforce the death penalty, which was a two-year period, and ended up with political rights and did not accept all personal property.