Gou envisions a fully-automated (and presumably almost employee-free) component factory inside of five years, has qualms about expanding his manufacturing presence in America ("I don't want to spend time having people sue me every day"), and pays executive bonuses out of his own dividends toprotectthe company's bottom line... so yeah, he's quite the industrialist.
But in the next few weeks, half a dozen US states are expected to pass legislation that will for the first time protect companies which value their social impact as much as thebottom line.