Zong Qinghou
Biography - Zong Qinghou (October 12, 1945-February 25, 2024), male, Han nationality, native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, founder of Wahaha Group, was the chairman and general manager of Hangzhou Wahaha Group, chairman of Zhejiang Wahaha Intelligent Robot, and president of Zhejiang Beverage Industry Association. In November 2022, with 69The wealth of 500 million US dollars ranked 45th in the "2022 Forbes Chinese Mainland Rich List".
At 10:30 on February 25, 2024, he died at the age of 79 due to ineffective medical treatment. A memorial service is scheduled to be held at 10 a.m. on February 28, 2024 at the Xiasha Base of Hangzhou Wahaha Group (the intersection of No. 10 Street and No. 5 Street, Baiyang Street, Qiantang District, Hangzhou).
16 words of enterprise spirit
Make great efforts: It is to lift the spirit and govern the industry strictly.
Hard work: It is the innate character of Wahaha people, and it is the most natural choice.
Courage to open up: It is to think what ordinary people dare not think and do what ordinary people dare not do.
Self-improvement: "Self-improvement" is to be self-motivated and enterprising; "Never stop" means never slackening, and we cannot bow our heads and admit defeat in the face of difficulties.
The 16-character enterprise spirit is gradually formed with the development and growth of Wahaha.
Hard work is not to be feared,Always forge ahead
In the early days of the business, Chairman Zong Qinghou once rode a tricycle, sent exercise books to primary and secondary schools in Hangzhou, and also sent popsicles to children in summer, which was how he began to accumulate every penny.
In the early days of its business, Wahaha not only had to experience hardships and hardships, but also had to endure cold eyes and injustice. One winter, in order to keep the briquette stove warm, someone went to the store next door to borrow wood planed peanut fire, but the person who went to borrow it came back and said that the next door refused to borrow it, and was looked down upon by others. Mr. Zong said to everyone at that time: ".If people look down on you, you have to look down on yourself, and you have to impress others
The difficulties in the early days of the business did not overwhelm the fighting spirit of the start-up team, but wrote it in their hearts".Make great efforts, work hard, have the courage to open up, and strive for self-improvementThese 16 big characters are used to inspire all Wahaha people to be innovative and enterprising in the future development.
Bear in mind the society and serve the country
For more than 10 years, Wahaha has persevered and made unremitting efforts to carry out the practice of corporate culture construction, and through various forms of carrier design, so that Wahaha's "home" cultural concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
"Small family" cohesion and formation of a joint force. At present, the company's government decree is smooth, and everyone makes suggestions for the company's development, so that "everyone" has developed rapidly.
When an enterprise develops, it must have a high sense of social responsibility and strong patriotic feelings.
Wahaha company takes it as its own responsibility to keep the society in mind and serve the country. Since 1994, Wahaha has gone out of Hangzhou and Zhejiang to invest and set up factories in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, and support the construction of the Three Gorges Project with practical actions. In the past few years since its establishment, Fuling Company has achieved good business results, solved the employment of more than 1,100 immigrants, and the company has been awarded the advanced enterprise of counterpart support twice. Party and state leaders have visited Fuling Company.
Since then, Wahaha has invested and set up factories in the old revolutionary base areas and the national poverty-stricken areas at a faster and greater pace. In the past few years, it has successively established production bases in more than 10 poverty-stricken areas such as Hong'an, Ji'an, Tianshui, Guangyuan, Xinxiang, Shuangcheng and Jilin, which has solved the employment of thousands of people and greatly promoted the development of the local economy. More importantly, Wahaha has brought advanced management concepts to backward areas, promoted the reform of these areas, and set a model for the management of enterprises in these areas, and played an exemplary role.
Finally, to pay tribute to Mr. Zong, we will always remember Mr. Zong's contributions, and deeply cherish our sweet childhood in our hearts, and wish to go all the way!