Don't say Chongqing people, even people from the north and even the northeast have eaten Qin Ma hot pot. After eating this hot pot, the feeling is cheap and affordable, the material is very sufficient. No one would have thought that Qin Ma hot pot has now developed more than 700 chain stores, even in the United States, Australia, New Zealand have chain stores, its founder is actually laid off in Chongqing in 1998, a female worker named Qin Yuanhong. When she was laid off, she was already 40 years old.

Qin Yuanhong caught the wave of reform of state-owned enterprises in the late 1990s, many workers were forced to be laid off, Qin Yuanhong is the initiative to choose to be laid off, and her husband rented a 30-square-meter house, began the hot pot business road. At the beginning of the Qin Yuanhong funds are limited, only 6 tables in the store, hired 8 waiters, from four or five o'clock in the morning they have to get up and busy, the store what work she did, every day to work eighteen or nineteen hours. Although tired, but she is very happy, she firmly believe that God rewards hard work, no work has been forced to the edge of survival, must rely on their own hands to create a world. Qin Yuanhong with a week's time will be inside the store things in order, customers eat here after the meal, thumbs up, said here the rice material is good, soup is good, the boss is better.

Perhaps Qin Yuanhong is the heaven sent her to earth to do hot pot. She has a talent for it, and since she tasted the sweetness of being a caterer, with little investment, quick income and no outstanding debts, she decided to double her plate. Just half a year after she founded the hotpot restaurant, its store had doubled in size with 50 tables. Only two years after opening the store, its turnover reached 8 million yuan, the total square meters exceeded 1,300 square meters, and more than 100 employees were on hand. Qin Yuanhong hot pot restaurant is based on the unique flavor of hot pot ingredients and high-end service. The plate is getting bigger and bigger Qin Yuanhong, more and more feel that it is difficult to control the development of the company just by personal ability, so she decided that she must carry out the operation of the company.

In 2001, Qin Yuanhong set up Chongqing Qinma Catering Culture Co., Ltd. and she became the chairman of the company, but she soon realized that the problem was that she could not act as a store manager and chairman of the board of directors, so she began to vigorously recruit employees with rich management experience to take charge of the daily operation of the store, and she was responsible for the input and output of large amounts of capital and was mainly responsible for the strategic decision-making. Qin Ma Hot Pot soon established a chain franchise system, and also passed the ISO9001 quality system certification. 2003 onwards, Qin Yuanhong began brand integration, and created a whole set of product production lines, including Qin Ma Hot Pot Seasoning, Qin Ma Monosodium Glutamate, Qin Ma Spicy Fish Seasoning, etc., which were widely acclaimed once they were launched, and were sold continuously. At present, Qin Ma Group has developed into a signature enterprise in Chongqing, with more than 10,000 employees under Qin Yuanhong's hand, and the company's annual output value reaching 2.5 billion RMB. Strong woman Qin Yuanhong also by the elegant middle-aged woman into the gray hair on the head of the elderly entrepreneurs. 2021 September 4, bad news, Qin Yuanhong due to disease in Chongqing, aged 64 years old. The good or bad of life does not lie in the length of life, but in whether or not in the limited time to maintain the love of life at all times, Qin Yuanhong did.