On February 25th, a major event happened, Mr. Zong Qinghou, the founder and chairman of Wahaha Group and a well-known private entrepreneur in the whole world, died of illness in the hospital.
Zong Qinghou's death has attracted great attention.
In fact, this matter is quite special, after all, for the Chinese people, the death of some people in the political circle will not be so concerned, and Zong Qinghou is just an entrepreneur after allSo why was his death so remarkable?
There are even many locals who will go to the headquarters of Wahaha Group to mourn, which is also directly related to Zong Qinghou's special life history.
In fact, there are two main reasons why Zong Qinghou will be so popular and concerned among the peopleThe first is the goal of many people, he is a real self-made business giant.
In Zong Qinghou's youth, he lived a long and hard life.
There was even 15 years of helping people build farms or dams in their hometowns, and Zong Qinghou also planted land and helped people plant seedlings when he was in his hometown.
It wasn't until 1978 that there was a little improvement in his career。In that year, his mother left her position for special reasons and took early retirement.
Moreover, according to the regulations at that time, his mother, as an office worker of a state-owned unit, Zong Qinghou could directly take over his mother's class.
So Zong Qinghou was assigned to the factory to replace his mother as a supply and marketing clerk, but Zong Qinghou didn't want to live a life like this.
After reform and opening up, China's economy has entered a stage of rapid development.
During this period, many career editors and even civil servants chose to go to the sea to do business, because there were indeed opportunities everywhere at that time, as long as they went to the sea to do business, they could always earn money.
And Zong Qinghou also took over his mother's position for nine years, resolutely gave up the organized job that many people envied, and began to go to the sea to do business.
In 1987, he contracted the distribution department of a school in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, and began to help sell various products.
At that time, Zong Qinghou was the only one in the sales department, so he needed to ride a tricycle to the streets and alleys every day to sell soda and stationery produced by the factory to earn money.
But Zong Qinghou is a very business-minded person, and he knows that he can't make a lot of money just by being a ** dealer.
Therefore, after working for a period of time and accumulating the first pot of gold, he borrowed 50,000 yuan from the bank with all his assets to prepare his own food processing factory, which is not the courage that ordinary people can have.
In the 80s of the last century, a deposit of 10,000 yuan was already able to attract the attention of the people around him.
People who have a deposit of 10,000 yuan are called 10,000 yuan households, but Zong Qinghou dared to borrow 50,000 yuan from the bank to work in his own food processing factory.
And Zong Qinghou dared to do this, also because he was confident, he did not develop food by himself, but had already negotiated with foreign companies.
After setting up a food factory, he helped others to OEM pollen oral liquid.
As soon as this oral liquid was launched, it was widely welcomed, and it only took him one year to earn more than 4 million yuan, becoming a well-known local tycoon at that time.
If you are an ordinary person, you may soon become obsessed with your own success and can't extricate yourself, or even lie on the credit book and are unwilling to move again.
But Zong Qinghou is different, he is an excellent entrepreneur with a real sense of responsibility and social responsibility.
After working in the food OEM business for several years, Zong Qinghou found that just relying on OEM other people's products will always be just a small role for people offline.
If the other party is unwilling to give an order, his food processing plant may close down at any time.
In addition, when Zong Qinghou was conducting social research at that time, he found that many children had picky eating habits.
They are reluctant to eat in their daily lives, which leads to the fact that the amount of supplies in society is already very largeHowever, there are still some children who do not grow up and are even malnourished.
Therefore, Zong Qinghou, who has a strong sense of social responsibility, quickly formulated a new business development strategy, and he wanted to develop his own drinks that could be used to supplement his children's nutrition.
In order to realize his dream, he also changed the company's name to Hangzhou Wahaha Nutritional Food Factory, which is the origin of Wahaha now.
Later, Zong Qinghou went around praying to God and worshiping Buddha, and finally got help from Zhejiang Medical University.
With the support of professors from the Department of Nutrition at the university, Wahaha Group has developed the first beverage that can be used for nutritional supplementation, which is the famous Wahaha Children's Nutrient Solution.
Relying on this nutrient solution, Zong Qinghou's food processing factory quickly made a name for itself.
In 1990, it created a miracle of being able to earn 100 million yuan a year.
At that time, Zong Qinghou's Wahaha Nutritional Food Factory was also listed as one of the top 500 industrial private enterprises with the best economic benefits in the country.
After the 90s, China's economic system underwent more substantial reforms.
The state has undergone deeper market-oriented changes, and many state-owned factories that were originally losing money have been subcontracted to private enterprises.
In this process, Zong Qinghou's Wahaha Nutrition Food Factory used 80 million yuan to acquire the original state-owned Hangzhou Canned Food Factory.
This decision made Zong Qinghou's Wahaha Nutritional Food Factory immediately become a large enterprise from the original small and micro enterprises.
Because the Hangzhou canning factory is a large and medium-sized state-owned factory with more than 2,000 employees.
After obtaining the production line of Hangzhou Canned Food Factory, Wahaha's commodity production output increased rapidly.
By 1992, Wahaha's turnover had exceeded 400 million yuan.
Even after earning so much money, Zong Qinghou still did not get lost.
He earns money not to spend it for himself, but to be able to make a good life for the common people.
Therefore, in the mid-90s of the last century, Zong Qinghou did something unimaginable to many entrepreneurs, that is, to respond to the call of the state and take the initiative to support the development of the Three Gorges Reservoir.
Build production bases all over the country to help the country solve the employment problem.
This was something that very few companies dared to do at the time, after all, no one could guarantee what the future of China's economic development would be.
Then, if you don't do it well with rapid business expansion, you will lose your fortune, but Zong Qinghou dares to do this.
And the facts have also proved that Zong Qinghou's sense of social responsibility has indeed helped him develop rapidly.
Up to now, Zong Qinghou has more than 80 production bases across the countryWahaha Group is also a veritable large group with more than 30,000 employees.
Relying on Wahaha Company, Zong Qinghou himself was listed as the richest man in China in 10, 12 and 13 years.
The name of his richest man in China is officially recognized by Forbes.
But even if Zong Qinghou became the richest man, he was never proud, and his daily life was quite simple.
There are many people who will miss this great entrepreneur nowIt is also because the simplicity of Zong Qinghou's daily life is unimaginable.
Even in the old age, Zong Qinghou still worked more than ten hours a day.
In addition to dealing with the company's related affairs in the company, he also traveled all over the country to see and see various problems of Wahaha Enterprise.
In an interview, Zong Qinghou also said that his lifelong dream is to make Wahaha a century-old group.
And he hopes to use all his strength to help China's manufacturing industry to upgrade.
This sense of social responsibility and corporate responsibility is not something that every entrepreneur has.
Nowadays, there are many entrepreneurs who only think about making money for themselves, but not about how to help the country develop.
It is precisely because of this sense of social responsibility that Mr. Zong Qinghou also pays great attention to charity affairs in his daily life. Zong Qinghou's Wahaha Group has been participating in the Spring Breeze Action held in Hangzhou to help laid-off workers achieve reemployment.
In the past ten years, Zong Qinghou has donated more than 1400 million RMB.
And his own total donation amount is more than 700 million yuan.
The money is used to support laid-off workers and families with financial difficulties.
Therefore, Mr. Zong Qinghou's reputation among the people is very goodIn 2022, he also received an individual donation award from Zhejiang Province**.
At the same time, as a deputy to the National People's Congress, Zong Qinghou submitted more than 190 motions and suggestions to the National People's Congress during his more than 10 years as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
The proposals submitted by Zong Qinghou are not as flashy as those put forward by many deputies, but are truly from the people.
Zong Qinghou saw some social problems, so he wanted to help the country solve them, and this kind of entrepreneur is indeed very rare.
After his death, he was also highly praised by all parts of the country.
Before his death, Mr. Zong Qinghou was a deputy to the National People's Congress, a national model worker, a well-known outstanding entrepreneur, and a master of Chinese management.
But these titles are all affordable by Mr. Zong Qinghou.
It is indeed a successful entrepreneur, and it is very rare for a successful person like him to have so much social responsibility and social responsibility.
In fact, for today's Chinese entrepreneurs, what is most lacking is Mr. Zong Qinghou's sense of social responsibility.
If every Chinese entrepreneur can be like Mr. Zong Qinghou, then China will definitely be able to develop better.
But in fact, there are still too few people like Mr. Zong Qinghou now.
Therefore, I also hope that Chinese entrepreneurs can learn from Mr. Zong Qinghou, and do not forget those ordinary people who are still living in poverty after making their own money.
Entrepreneurs should think about how their money is earned.