07/21/25 -
“My classmate used to work at Wahaha, and he was lucky enough to meet Zong Fuli in person. He only talked about it after he quit: the real Zong Fuli is nothing like what people imagine.
Let’s talk about my classmate first. He worked in the marketing department in Wahaha for three years, and he’s had several meetings with Zong Fuli. He’s always telling me that he used to think that girl was just a nepo baby based on the news reports, until he saw her cussing someone out while slamming the table in real life. One time, at a quarterly meeting, a regional manager brought in an old promotion plan, and Zong Fuli just cut him off. “We’ve used this exact plan three times last year. Do you think consumers don’t have a brain?” Her tone sounded exactly like my neighbor auntie cussing out people taking up her parking spaces. She had no mercy for them.
A lot of people think she grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth. She should be a princess who wears dresses, puts on heels, and enjoys afternoon tea. But my classmate said that one time, he worked overtime until 10PM and saw Zong Fuli squatted outside of the warehouse door arguing with the logistics manager. “If this shipment is 30 minutes late and the end retailers can’t restock tonight, how much sales are we going to lose tomorrow?” And the manager even joked back, “It’s normal to run into traffic jams.” And she pulled out her phone right then and there to show the traffic reports, “Traffic jam? Your route circled 3km out of the way. Did the driver pick up his kid from school on the way?” Sure made the other guy blush.
What impressed my classmate the most was the “changing of the blood” after she took over. There were a lot of old people at Wahaha who had worked with Zong Qinghou all his life, who would go on endlessly about how, “Back in my day…” Their proposals are all dogs hit and they won’t compromise on it at all. Zong Fuli didn’t try to ease things in. She transferred people that needed transferred and hired in young people. One time, my classmate went with her to negotiate a new beverage collaboration, and the other side insisted, “We’ve been working with Wahaha for ten years. We can’t reduce our prices.” And Zong Fuli just threw the data on the table and went, “Look at these statistics. The resale rate for this type of our beverages dropped by 15%. Do you think it’s a price issue or a lack of creativity?” And the other side went silent. And in the end, the price went down by 8%.
My classmate even had a story about when she was studying abroad. She was majoring in management overseas, and she was on her laptop doing market research even at her school union. She had three big books of notes. One time, when people were talking about the future at the reunion, she said, “I want to use the market analysis I’ve learned in China.” At the time, people thought she was just saying that. Who would’ve thought it really came in handy? After taking over in China, she led her team to go through Wahaha’s user profile again. Back in the day, we all thought, “Only little kids drink sweet drinks.” And she found that 40% of their consumers were over 30-years-old, and she immediately started pushing low-sugar tea and energy drinks, and went from selling 50 billion to 70 billion in half a year.
Honestly, what’s the hardest part about family business inheritance? It’s that the first generation are hard-working, and the second generation are often accused of leaning on their parents? But Zong Fuli doesn’t do that. She doesn’t constantly talking about how, “I’ll work hard!” In front of the media. She speaks with her results: innovative products, readjusting teams, expanding markets, all of these are hardcore results. When my classmate quit, he told me, “I used to think that nepo babies are just babies, but now I see that they have real talent. If it was me, I would acknowledge her leadership too.”
A lot of people on the internet say that she’s too “harsh” and “rude”, but I think it means she sticks by the rules. Business isn’t make-believe. If you’re too worried about offending people, you’ll end up screwing over your employees and customers. It’s just like my classmate said, “If you work for CEO Zong, even if there’s a lot of stress, you end up learning a lot of real skills. If you just want to tread water, she won’t even give you the opportunity.””
Comments say, “How much did you get paid to write this?”
“When you’re in charge of a business that big, if you’re even a little bit soft, you’ll get torn apart! You gotta be like Zong Fuli to run Wahaha!”
“Shills all write the same template, it’s always my classmate, my neighbor, my friend, etc.”
“Just watching a content creator on Bilibili share his experience being a coroner in Australia. It’s a bit of a hell joke…a bunch of young people got together to huff helium. There’s not much harm in small amounts of helium. Your voice just changes. So a lot of people were having fun, and one of them ended up breathing in a bit too much, and there was too much helium in his lungs for oxygen, and he ended up suffocating and falling over. All you gotta do that this stage is just put him outside and let him breathe fresh air, but that group didn’t think of that, so they started taking turns doing mouth-to-mouth with him.
But all of these people had been together, huffing helium, and their lungs were also full of helium, and all the air they blew into him for mouth-to-mouth was also helium. And the whole reason he was suffocating was from too much helium, and these people just kept giving him more helium through mouth-to-mouth until the ambulance arrived…basically, by the time the ambulance came, the patient was already super dead, and they had to call a coroner…I kind of want to laugh, but it feels like I’ll go to hell, so I’ll just press 1.” [A lot of streamers will encourage their viewers to press one, “If you agree with me”, just to bump their engagement numbers, so “press 1” is a colloquial term now for expressing approval/agreement.]
Comments say, “Maybe my focus is really weird, but why do all those people know how to do mouth-to-mouth?”
“T-turtle soup?” [A card game where a very vague scenario is described, like, “Man drinks turtle soup and kills himself afterwards.” And the other person has to guess why.]
“Does this count as manslaughter?”
“In my observation, a girl who was spoiled growing up and never does housework at home and has to have her mom cut up fruit and serve it to her to eat it, then she’ll often take care of all the chores and childcare after marriage, like she’s been possessed.
But if a girl helped her parents with chores growing up, doing whatever she can, she’ll have a much easier time after marriage. Her husband will take on chores, her in-laws will help, and she can just stand by and supervise.
I’m the former. I never did any housework growing up and called for my mom on everything. And my best friend was the latter. When she was a little girl, she did all the housework. And after marriage, her husband does chores every day, and her in-laws are happy to help with childcare and chores. She doesn’t have to do much at all and her life is great.
Have you noticed this dichotomy? Have you seen similar things?”
Comments say, “Nah. I don’t like to do housework, and after marriage, I bought a roomba and even my soy milk machine is wash-free. I never wash dishes growing up and my husband has done all the dishes for two years, and now we’ve bought a dishwasher. You get it? Technology changes lives.”
“I never did any housework growing up (I’m an only child and my parents spoiled me too much), and after marriage, my husband thinks even carrying a grocery bag will tire me out and doesn’t let me touch any chores.”
“Being able to do chores is being able to be independent. It’s lucky to have. If you don’t know how to do chores but you need to live on your own, your standard of living will get really bad. Of course, it’s a different kind of luck to be able to put up with a pigsty of a home and eating takeout every meal, or being able to afford to hire a maid who’ll cook for you every day.”
#Family of hero demands 1.32 million from raped woman. “9AM in the morning, on the 22nd of June, “man released from prison after raping his sister-in-law kills hero” is open for hearing in Yunnna Province Huaning County People’s Court for appeals. Mr. Tian has been charged with premeditated murder after raping his sister-in-law and killing the hero who tried to save her.
1996, in Yunan, Yuxi, after Mr. Tian raped his sister-in-law Zhao, he was afraid that he would get found out, and attempted to stab Zhao to death and failed, and was sentenced to 9 years.
2002, Tian got out after getting a reduced sentence and attempted to get revenge on Zhao and went to Zhao’s home and stabbed her. Fellow villager Liu Minfu saw this and attempted to intervene and was killed. After that, Tian began 20 long years on the run, and was finally captured in his rental apartment in Changsha in 2022.
2022, 15th of Noember, Yuxi Middle Court sentenced Tian to a delayed death sentence in two years, and Tian filed for appeal.
2023, 10th of May, Liu Minfu’s family sued the sister-in-law Zhao in civil court for 1.32 million, and Huaning County People’s Court has officially accepted the case.
Before the hearing, the victim Liu Minfu’s son, Liu Lianggang, told Jimu reporters that what they want out of this hearing is that Tian will be sentenced to death. They can’t accept a delayed sentence like in the first hearing.”
Comments say, “They spent 20 years trying to capture him and they still want to delay his death sentence?”
“Just in time to live out his retirement on the inside.”
“How come this guy gets to have a delayed sentence?”
“Trillions are flowing into the Yarlung Zangbo River! A real humanitarian project!
The Yarlung River Hydropower Station has quietly broken soil. There was no over the top marketing, but this project might be even more important than the Three Gorges Dam.
The ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is too fragile. A disaster could fall at any moment. What to do? The answer lies in the over 2000 metres of altitude difference in the Yarlung Zangbo River.
The amount of energy water produces as it flows down can generate a shocking amount of electricity. Tens of billions of clean energy income is going to flow into Tibet to turn into roads, schools, and tourist attractions.
And after the hydropower station is done generating power, the water is still exactly how it is, and the mountains are still exactly what they are. The only thing that’s been generated is infinite wealth.
Tibet has both kept its ecological balance, and ensured that all Tibetans can live great lives. What a solid humanitarian project.
When the Yarlung River’s power lights up tens of thousands of households, when clean energy brings in real gold and silver, do you think those trillion dollars was worth it?”
Comments say, “So can they charge less for electricity?”
“This is the ace up our sleeve against India.”
“Just an 8 million RMB project in my county has a bigger opening ceremony than that.”