Ruentex Group Chairman Samuel Yin Passes Away; Taipei Veterans General Hospital Director Mourns Benefactor

According to the Central News Agency, Samuel Yin, Chairman of Ruentex Group, passed away today. During his lifetime, he donated significant funds to Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) to support the construction of Taiwan's first heavy-ion cancer therapy center and medical staff dormitory buildings. TVGH Director Chen Wei-ming choked up while bidding farewell to his benefactor, saying, "The person I respect the most, rest in peace."

Ruentex Group announced today that the group's chairman and founder of the Tang Prize, Samuel Yin, passed away peacefully at Taipei Veterans General Hospital at around 4:00 a.m. on May 26, 2026, at the age of 76. His family was by his side at the time of his passing, and all employees of the group felt deep sorrow and reluctance to let him go.

"I still haven't recovered from the shock," Chen Wei-ming told a CNA reporter this morning. Having just seen Samuel Yin off, Chen said he was a great benefactor to Taiwan and to the people of TVGH. Choking up, he said that many of the things Yin did for TVGH were unknown to the outside world. Yin was the person he respected most, and he could only keep saying, "Rest in peace."

The signing ceremony for the TVGH Heavy-Ion Cancer Therapy Center was held in 2015. Because the budget for the center was as high as 4.2 billion NTD, after years of fundraising, the Hung Kuo Group, Hung Tai Group, and Samuel Yin's group decided to jointly donate 2.1 billion NTD, of which Yin donated 1.5 billion NTD to assist in the construction of the hardware.

In addition, the new medical staff dormitory building at TVGH was also donated by the Ruentex Group. It cost more than 2.1 billion NTD (including land) and was completed and put into use in just 473 days. It has 1 basement level and 18 floors above ground, with 300 independent suites. Each suite is planned with 4 sets of independent desks, beds, and cabinets, providing a total of 1,200 beds for single medical staff to live in.

Renowned plastic surgeon Lin Ching-yun once shared that when her husband, Lin Fang-yu, was the director of TVGH, the couple got Samuel Yin drunk. When the tipsy Yin learned that the "power couple of the medical world" just wanted a donation to encourage young doctors to study abroad, Yin immediately said, "You don't need to get me drunk for this kind of thing," and donated more than 200 million NTD at once.