Chinanews client, Beijing, September 5th (Xie Yiguan) Sorrowful!

On the 4th, a female business legend ended!

　　On September 4, the Funeral Committee of Qin Ma Industrial Group issued an obituary, National March Eighth Red Flag Bearer, Chongqing Model Worker, Member of Chongqing Municipal Political Consultative Conference, Vice President of Chongqing Catering Chamber of Commerce, Vice President of Chongqing Hot Pot Association, Chongqing Qin Ma Industrial Comrade Qin Yuanhong, the chairman of the group, died of illness at 3:50 on September 4, 2021, at the age of 64.

　　The Catering Chamber of the Chongqing General Chamber of Commerce also issued an obituary on its official Weibo: The death of Ms. Qin Yuanhong has made me lose a respected eldest sister, and it is a huge loss to the Chongqing restaurant industry.

The industry is heartbroken, and I regret it.

　　Qin Yuanhong was born in Chongqing in March 1958. He started working in 1976 and became an employee of the Chongqing Public Transport Company.

　　Upstream news reported that Qin Yuanhong, who was still a female worker in the Chongqing Public Transport Team at the time when a state-owned enterprise was restructured in the 1990s, chose to be laid off to start a business.

With a savings of 20,000 yuan, plus tens of thousands of yuan borrowed from relatives and friends, Qin Yuanhong started his business.

In the memories of relatives and friends, Qin Yuanhong always smiled, smiling at the difficulties of starting a business, smiling at the setbacks in life, and bringing happiness to everyone.

　　In 1998, Qin Yuanhong and her husband Li Jie founded the Qin Ma hot pot brand. They put together 6 tables on the California Garden Highway and opened the hot pot restaurant.

Relying on family secret recipes and hardworking energy, Qin Ma’s old hot pot quickly became popular in Chongqing’s streets and alleys.

The picture of Qin Yuanhong comes from the WeChat public account of Qin Ma Hot Pot Catering

　　Hot pot is an indispensable part of Chongqing people's life, and it is Chongqing's iconic business card.

In 2007, the Chinese Culinary Association awarded Chongqing the title of "Chinese Hot Pot Capital".

According to data from Chongqing Hot Pot Association, hot pot is the second largest catering category in Chongqing after snacks and fast food, with nearly 30,000 hot pot restaurants.

　　Even with fierce competition, Qin Ma Hot Pot is still the best.

In 2020, Chongqing Qinma Catering Management Co., Ltd. ranked 58th among the top 100 private enterprises in Chongqing and the second among the top 10 private enterprises in Chongqing catering industry.

In 2020, Chongqing Qinma Catering Management Co., Ltd. has a total revenue of 2.658 billion yuan.

　　Information on the official website of Qin Ma Hot Pot shows that Qin Ma Hot Pot has developed into a large-scale catering company with more than 30,000 registered employees, nearly 700 stores across the country, and annual sales of more than 2 billion yuan.

There are also stores in Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand.

　　According to its official website, in 2009, Qin Ma Company invested in the establishment of a Chongqing hot pot industrialization demonstration project, which upgraded the traditional hot pot base material production method to an industrialized, standardized, large-scale, and modern hot pot industry model, which completely changed the hot pot industry for many years. The fact that there is no curing process for the primer, no fixed standard, difficult to accurately control the quality, and restricted development space have brought Qinma's development to a new level.

　　At the Chongqing Two Meetings in 2020, Qin Yuanhong made a proposal to guide the differentiated development of night markets, and develop the night market economy according to local conditions according to the characteristics of geographic location, target customer groups, consumption levels, purchasing power and demand, and promote the concept of "night Chongqing tide life" To the whole country.

　　Upstream news reports said that at present, Qin Yuanhong's son Li Xinyu has taken over and will lead Qin's mother's team to complete his mother's unfinished business.

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