Beijing, September 5 (Xie Yiguan) Deep pain! On the 4th, the legend of a business woman came to an end!
On September 4, the Funeral Committee of Qinma Industrial Group issued an obituary that Comrade Qin Yuanhong, a member of the National March 8 Red Banner Bearer, a model worker in Chongqing, a member of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the vice president of the Chongqing Catering Chamber of Commerce, the vice president of the Chongqing Hot pot association, and the chairman of Chongqing Qinma Industrial Group, died at 3:50 on September 4, 2021 at the age of 64 due to ineffective medical treatment.
The Chongqing General Chamber of Commerce Catering Chamber of Commerce also issued an obituary on the official micro-blog, writing: The death of Ms. Qin Yuanhong has made me lose a respected big sister, and it is also a huge loss to the Chongqing catering industry. The heartbreak of the industry is deplorable.
Qin Yuanhong, born in March 1958 in Chongqing, joined the work force in 1976 and became an employee of the Chongqing Bus Company.
Upstream news reported that in the 1990s, when state-owned enterprises were restructured, Qin Yuanhong, who was still a female worker in the Chongqing bus team, took the initiative to choose to lay off and start a business. With 20,000 yuan of savings, plus tens of thousands of yuan borrowed from relatives and friends, Qin Yuanhong began the road to entrepreneurship. In the memories of relatives and friends, Qin Yuanhong always smiled, laughing at the difficulties of entrepreneurship and the setbacks in life, bringing happiness to everyone.
In 1998, Qin Yuanhong and her husband Li Jie founded the Qin Ma hot pot brand together, put together 6 tables on the side of the California Garden Highway, and opened a hot pot restaurant. Relying on the family secret recipe and diligent enthusiasm, The old hot pot of Qin Mama quickly "red" all over the streets and alleys of Chongqing.
Qin Yuanhong The picture comes from the WeChat public account of Qin Mama hot pot restaurant
Hot pot is an indispensable part of the lives of Chongqing people and is the iconic business card of Chongqing. In 2007, the China Cuisine Association awarded Chongqing the title of "China Hot Pot Capital". According to data from the Chongqing Hot pot association, hot pot is the second largest catering category in chongqing after snack fast food, with nearly 30,000 hot pot restaurants.
Even if the competition is fierce, Qin Ma hot pot is still one of the best. In 2020, Chongqing Qinma Catering Management Co., Ltd. ranked 58th among the top 100 private enterprises in Chongqing and 2nd among the top 10 private enterprises in Chongqing's catering industry. In 2020, the total revenue of Chongqing Qinma Catering Management Co., Ltd. was 2.657 billion yuan.
According to the information on the official website of Qinma Hotpot, Qinma Hotpot has developed into a large-scale catering enterprise with more than 30,000 registered employees, nearly 700 stores nationwide, and annual sales of more than 2 billion yuan. It also has stores in Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.
According to its official website, in 2009, Qinma Company invested in the construction of Chongqing hot pot industrialization demonstration project, upgraded the traditional hot pot base production mode to industrialization, standardization, scale and modernization of the new hot pot industry model, and completely changed the status quo of many years of hot pot base without curing procedures, no fixed standards, difficult to accurately control the quality, and restricted development space, so that the development of Qinma Company stepped onto a new level.
At the two sessions of Chongqing in 2020, Qin Yuanhong proposed to guide the differentiated development of night markets, develop the night market economy according to local conditions according to the characteristics of geographical location, target customer group, consumption level, purchasing capacity and demand, and promote the concept of "night Chongqing tide life" to the whole country.
Upstream news reported that at present, Qin Yuanhong's son Li Xinyu has taken over the baton and will lead the Qin Mother team to complete the mother's unfinished business. (End)
Source: China News Network