On February 25, 2024, Zong Qinghou, founder and chairman of Wahaha Group, died in Hangzhou at the age of 79 due to ineffective medical treatment.
As the founder of national-level drinking water, Zong Qinghou's death in social ** attracted netizens to mourn.
Many netizens said that this is the person I admire:
Wahaha-related topics continue to be on the hot search, and just now the topic of Wahaha Laboratory Water is also high on the Weibo hot search list.
Why is it called "laboratory water"?
It is understood that the conductivity of the test sample of Wahaha pure water reached 156, which meets the standard for laboratory water (water conductivity 5 s cm), reaches the laboratory water level, and is cost-effective, so it can be found in various laboratories.
However, many netizens said that they don't know this word yet:
Some netizens also said that the purity of Wahaha pure water in life and work is indeed very high:
@科技未来人, a well-known science and technology celebrity, said that he used Watsons in his laboratory, and he had seen Wahaha in other laboratories, and even some students wrote it into the report, and some experiments could be used occasionally.
Wahaha's fame in the scientific research community is also getting bigger and bigger, so much so that in 2013, CCTV's "Ping An 365" appeared in it:
Even the training materials of ABI (American Applied Biosystems) are specially cued to Wahaha pure water:
According to the search of related terms, there are countless mentions of "wahaha water" in **:
You can even find precautions related to it in the user guides of many instruments.
According to a 2021 report by the Kitchen Human Research Institute, many people see it as hard currency in the laboratory, and it has been for more than a decade.
Do you really know Wahaha's pure water?
On April 2, 2023, CCTV reporter Wang Bingbing visited the Wahaha pure water production base, and opened an experiment and cooking class to re-understand pure water with netizens.
At the scene, Zong Qinghou, chairman of Wahaha, made a surprise appearance to reveal the birth of Wahaha pure water.
What does it take to be born with a bottle of 2 yuan pure water?
The reporter came to Wahaha's big health industry base in Hangzhou, which has the first intelligent beverage production line in China.
The laboratory staff will randomly conduct random inspections on the pure water, bottles, and bottle caps on the production line, and add manual review on the basis of the automatic detection of the instrument to achieve the double guarantee effect.
Wahaha staff randomly selected pure water for testing, and the results showed that the conductivity, pH value, and ozone concentration were all within the standard range, and the conductivity of the test sample was 108 s cm, which fully meets the national requirements for bottled drinking purified water (water conductivity 10 s cm) and even meets the standard for analytical laboratory water (water conductivity 5 s cm), reaching the laboratory water level.
It is understood that in order to pay tribute to science and basic research, Wahaha launched a laboratory water support plan in September 2021, sponsoring a year of pure water for universities and laboratories of major research institutions across the country, totaling more than 100 tons, to support national scientific research construction and cultivate industry academic talents, Wahaha revealed that in 2022, Wahaha will continue to launch the laboratory water support plan and contribute to the development of national scientific research.
Subsequently, Zong Qinghou explained to reporters the whole production process of pure water from capping, bottle blowing, filling, sleeve labeling to the final wrapping, and when introducing the specific situation of the production line, he listed some figures: "Wahaha has more than 50 water vapor production lines in the country, and the working time of the production line is about 20 hours a day, with an average of 1,200 bottle caps per minute, and 54,000 bottles of pure water can be produced in one hour, and the monthly output can reach more than 50 million boxes." ”
In the process of on-site, the entire production process is carried out automatically, and there is almost no trace of employees in the production line.
Instead of the stereotypical assembly line-like manual laborers, Wahaha's employees on the production line have become the facilitators of the machine, and their job is now to monitor the machine and make manual adjustments when the machine fails.
As the only enterprise in the domestic food and beverage industry with the ability to independently develop, design, install and debug equipment, Wahaha implemented the key construction project of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2017 to carry out intelligent transformation of food and beverage process manufacturing.
It is worth mentioning that the process of Wahaha pure water represents the international advanced level. Selected high-quality and safe water sources across the country, using multi-layer depth filtration technology, supplemented by activated carbon adsorption purification treatment, with the international advanced RO reverse osmosis deep purification technology, the water of various harmful substances and impurities have been almost completely removed, this set of drinking water depth production process is safe, efficient, stable and energy-saving, can make pure water pure and sweet, higher solubility.
In addition, since 2014, Wahaha has built and put into operation several intelligent production lines, deepening intelligent manufacturing through digital reform and promoting high-quality development. So far, Wahaha has invested more than 30 billion yuan to introduce world-class production equipment and technology, and has established a national enterprise technology center, a provincial enterprise research institute, a postdoctoral research workstation, and a CNAS accredited laboratory.
In 1996, Wahaha officially launched purified water, and is one of the first enterprises in the domestic beverage industry to produce and sell purified water on a large scale.
Wahaha purified water adopts two-stage reverse osmosis technology and ozone sterilization process, and the purified water produced is free of impurities and can be drunk safely and securely. In the context of the era when drinking water safety was greatly affected, Wahaha attached great importance to the health of consumers, took the lead in taking the responsibility of improving the safety of water for the people, and launched Wahaha pure water from the perspective of product safety, quality and health, which can be called a "drinking water revolution" in China.
What is Purified Water? Purified water, or H2O, is pure water that is free of any impurities and bacteria.
However, the pure water and tap water we see in our lives cannot be directly judged by the naked eye, so how to distinguish pure water from tap water?
Wahaha staff and reporters completed several comparative experiments between purified water and tap water, including conductivity experiments, filtration experiments, burning experiments, total hardness tests, and comparative experiments that can be completed in daily life.
According to Wahaha staff, the main components of scale are calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate, which are generally more likely to occur in northern regions and places where the water quality is hard.
Therefore, if some small household appliances in the family involve water, such as coffee machines, beauty instruments, steam ironers, etc., it is more recommended to use pure water, which is not easy to scale.
In the tea brewing experiment, it can be seen that the color of the tea soup brewed by tap water is dark and yellow, while the color of pure water tea soup is light yellow-green, which is closer to the color, flavor and shape of tea itself, because the ions in tap water are easy to complexe and oxidize with tea polyphenols.
Comparison of the experimental results of tap water (a) and Wahaha purified water (b) for making tea.
Is it good to drink purified water?
In fact, some of the statements about pure water on the Internet are groundless, there is no scientific evidence that pure water will lead to the loss of human nutrients, and it is unrealistic to supplement nutrition through the negligible mineral content of water, and the World Health Organization's "Drinking Water Quality Guidelines" has never made any recommendations for the mineral content in drinking water.
It is reported that in 2022, during the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, Wahaha pure water will also appear in various venues of the Asian Games.
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