Chao News client reporter Bao Yong.
On February 25, 2024, Wahaha released an obituary: Zong Qinghou, founder and chairman of Wahaha Group, passed away due to illness.
Today, because of work interviews, I found three manuscripts, and it turned out that the reporter himself had a three-sided relationship with Zong Qinghou.
On May 12, 2010, Zong Qinghou, chairman of Hangzhou Wahaha Group, was a guest in Zhejiang, which was the first time the reporter met Zong Qinghou.
Here we need to understand a background, in 2008, a once-in-a-century financial crisis affected the world, in 2009 Zhejiang's economic development was extremely difficult, but the Zhejiang enterprises that bravely stood at the forefront of the tide have been looking for a path to turn "crisis" into "opportunity".
In that interview, Zong Qinghou took Wahaha Group as an example and said that the growth of the enterprise is grown up in continuous innovation, "Nutrition Express adds milk and juice together and sells more than 10 billion yuan a year, which is an all-round innovation." ”
He also suggested in the interview that the focus of economic transformation is to stimulate domestic demand, and more attention should be paid to people's livelihood to improve people's income.
The second time I met Zong Qing, it was more interesting that in September 2012, at the food safety legal examination held in Hangzhou, a number of well-known food enterprises in Hangzhou such as Wahaha, Master Kong, and Beinmei participated, and the then secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee inspected the examination room.
The reporter vaguely remembered that after Zong Qinghou walked out of the examination room, he breathed a deep sigh of relief and said: "I haven't taken such an exam for more than 20 years. ”
Zong Qinghou has always attached great importance to "food safety", and has talked about food safety on many occasions, calling it a national defense war, "Wahaha regards product quality as the life of the enterprise." ”
You must know that before this examination, 1,153 enterprise legal persons and management personnel in Hangzhou have participated in the examination, and the passing rate of the examination is nearly 80%, of which 33 enterprises have taken the initiative to change the enterprise legal person because the legal person cannot pass the examination.
On January 30, 2014, before the Lunar New Year, Wahaha's production base held a traditional reunion dinner.
He wears a casual leather jacket with a light blue shirt underneath and black trousers underneath ......Zong Qinghou handed out red envelopes to the front-line workers table by table, thanking everyone for their hard work in the past year.
In 2014, Zong Qinghou sent red envelopes to the front-line personnel of the production base, photographed by reporter Bao Yong.
At that time, it was a year of comprehensive transformation and upgrading of Wahaha Group, and in the context of the economic downturn, Zong Qinghou announced on the spot that Wahaha Group launched the "Chinese Dream" plan, which is composed of employee dreams, corporate dreams, national dreams, and Chinese dreams.
Employee dream, to ensure that by 2020, the income of employees will be doubled compared with 2010; Enterprise dream, strive to achieve a turnover of 102.3 billion yuan in the new year; National dream: develop new products to serve the health of the people; Chinese Dream: Continue to increase investment in poor areas for the elderly.
Some of these dreams have long been realized, and some are still going on.
I like a passage in "Zong Qinghou: The Principle of Gravity" very much: My only thought is that when I really get old, I can say to everyone: "My life is not extraordinary, but I have done a career, changed the fate of some people, and provided some positive energy for this era, this society and this country." Many people have been inspired by me to be a force for a new world. I wish they would answer me, "Don't worry, we don't have a far cry." ”
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