On February 25, 79-year-old Zong Qinghou, founder and chairman of Wahaha Group, passed away due to illness. On the 28th, the city of Hangzhou bid farewell to this legendary civilian entrepreneur in the rain.
In addition to not dismissing employees over 45 years old and considerable year-end bonuses at the end of the year, Zong Qinghou has repeatedly mentioned the use of various forms to solve housing problems for employees over the years.
How has the company's efforts to "home ownership" affected their lives? The reporter found Huang Weiqiang, a veteran Wahaha employee who has been retired for many years and has enjoyed three welfare subdivisions.
Before retirement, he lived in a large house of 152 square meters.
On the afternoon of February 27, The Paper (www.The reporter came to Huang Weiqiang's home. Although it was built at the beginning of this century, this residential community close to Hangzhou East Railway Station has complete living facilities, high green coverage, and many rockeries, fountains and other landscapes. Huang Weiqiang's house covers an area of 152 square meters, with three balconies and two bathrooms, with plenty of lighting and simple decoration.
Huang Weiqiang's house The Paper reporter Yang Zhe pictured.
Huang Weiqiang told reporters that Wahaha bought more than 100 properties in this community at one time and distributed them to employees. And counting this house, he has already enjoyed three welfare subdivisions in Wahaha.
Born in 1946, Huang Weiqiang is a native of Tonglu, Zhejiang, and was assigned to Tonglu Printing Factory after graduating from the Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked for more than ten years. In 1992, in order to realize his wife's wish to return to Hangzhou to live, Huang Weiqiang came to Wahaha with his collection of Chinese painting and packaging design to apply for a job, and it was Zong Qinghou himself who interviewed him.
Zong Qinghou asked me why I wanted to come to Wahaha, and also asked me what requirements I had for treatment. Huang Weiqiang recalled that he and Zong Qinghou said that they were interested in Wahaha's development prospects, but he had not officially joined the company, and he was not clear about what contribution he could make to the company, so it was difficult to raise the issue of treatment. But in order to work with peace of mind and stability, he hopes that the company can help solve the household registration and housing problems of a family of three.
Mr. Zong said on the spot, this is all a small problem, you will come to work immediately. Not long after joining Wahaha, Huang Weiqiang was assigned a 64-square-meter three-bedroom house given to him by the company. In that era when the household registration policy had not yet been loosened, Wahaha quickly helped Huang Weiqiang's family solve the problem of settling in Hangzhou.
Two years later, due to construction work near Huang Weiqiang's home, domestic water became a problem. After reporting to the company, I didn't expect to give him a new house, and the second house was 68 square meters.
In 2006, Huang Weiqiang officially retired. And just before retiring, Wahaha Group won a batch of ** near Hangzhou East Railway Station. At that time, Huang Weiqiang was the director of the design office, not the company's senior leader, he didn't have too many extravagant expectations, but just hoped that the new house could have its own studio. And it turned out that this time it was unexpected, he not only got a 152-square-meter house, but the unit also subsidized him a large amount of money for the purchase of the house.
Huang Weiqiang in his studio The Paper reporter Yang Zhe pictured.
Three times the room is divided, the more it is changed, the bigger it is, and the environment is getting better and better. Huang Weiqiang told reporters that although his son still has his own house in Hangzhou, due to the better location advantages and beautiful community environment, three generations of the family are currently living here.
My destiny was changed by him".
When he first joined the company, because Wahaha's design team had not yet been formally formed, Huang Weiqiang was mainly responsible for product design and advertising design, until his retirement in 2006, he worked for Wahaha for more than ten years, and also became the director of Wahaha's marketing design office from a new employee. With more and more single products launched by Wahaha, Huang Weiqiang also feels the growth of the company in his design position, and he is also very proud to see some advertisements and products designed by him to be recognized in the market.
Some of Huang Weiqiang's design works when he was working at Wahaha Photo provided by the interviewee.
In Huang Weiqiang's memory, Zong Qinghou, who understands marketing, also attaches great importance to design work, and often puts forward his own clear aesthetic views. In 1995, after returning from an inspection, Zong Qinghou took the initiative to "arm" the design department, and asked Huang Weiqiang to take the lead in proposing the budget and plan for equipment purchase.
At that time, Huang Weiqiang went to Zhejiang University to learn about the leading computer graphics equipment at that time from experts, and reported the relevant situation to Zong Qinghou after returning. Soon, the company spent ** to purchase 3 Apple computers for the design department, which greatly improved the efficiency of design and drawing.
In order to solve the problem of poor product packaging design, Wahaha has also introduced many professional designers to create product packaging that can attract consumers one by one. In the end, with the efforts of all the staff of Wahaha's design department, the image of a crooked cap, bow tie and smiling child successfully entered thousands of households.
Huang Weiqiang told reporters that Zong Qinghou and himself are only one year apart. When he heard the news of Zong Qinghou's death, he felt very sad. In his impression, Zong Qinghou cherishes his employees very much and is a good entrepreneur. Under his leadership, the company's management is also very humane, if there is a mistake in the work, Zong Qinghou has never only criticized middle-level cadres, not grass-roots employees.
On the morning of the 27th, I went to the memorial service in advance and delivered wreaths. I have to thank him, I can say that my fate was changed by him. Huang Weiqiang said.
At the subway entrance of Wujiang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, the main part of 8 high-rise finely decorated residential apartments has been completed, which is a talent apartment built by Wahaha for employees in the core area of every inch of land.
Housing for young people is a big deal, and the construction of Wahaha Talent Apartment is to allow them to work in Hangzhou with peace of mind and promote the development of enterprises. In the future, the development of enterprises will all depend on young people with knowledge and culture. In 2020, the construction site of major projects in Shangcheng District will be concentrated, Zong Qinghou said.
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