Why does a man with assets of over 100 million go out on the streets every day to pick up trash?

Zhong Congrong, a man from Chongqing who owns three companies with over 100 million in assets, goes to the streets every day to pick up garbage voluntarily for the sake of environmental protection.

A few days ago, the 2017 selection of Chongqing’s most beautiful families was announced. Zhong Congrong’s family from Liangjiang New District was named one of the “Top Ten Most Beautiful Families” in Chongqing. 52-year-old Zhong Congrong stood on the podium wearing an orange cultural shirt. He said that the orange cultural shirt is one of the symbols of his family. It has eight words printed on it that have almost become a family motto: "To change littering, it starts with you and me." For the past three years, Zhong Congrong, who owns three businesses, has been picking up garbage every day, maintaining his commitment to environmental protection.

52-year-old Zhong Congrong does not use waste products to earn living expenses by picking up garbage. Anyone familiar with Lao Zhong's family knows that Zhong Congrong and his son Zhong Yang manage a series of cross-border industries in the fields of automobile maintenance, real estate and material manufacturing. Their assets have exceeded 100 million, and they are truly big bosses.

What motivated Zhong Congrong to go out and pick up garbage every day was an experience he had while on vacation in Sanya in 2014. "That year, I took my wife and children to the beach. I met an old lady who was picking up rubbish on the beach. She was a professor from Tsinghua University. She was over 70 years old and had been picking up rubbish for several years." Zhong Congrong said that the experience touched him. Very big.

On the second day after returning to Chongqing, he convened a meeting with the factory management. The topic was how to get employees to develop the habit of not littering. Since then, Zhong Congrong started by changing the waste disposal methods of his sponge processing plants, letting the management team and employees understand that his focus on waste disposal was not just a whim.

From then on, Zhong Congrong began to go out every morning to pick up garbage in two nearby communities and community commercial areas. "It usually takes an hour, with a little bee, while picking up and publicizing, don't litter."

At first, Zhong Congrong was burdened with a lot of unsupport and incomprehension. Zhong Congrong recalled: "I remember when I first put on an environmentally friendly cultural shirt, my wife and daughter were unwilling to go with me. My family did not understand my behavior of picking up garbage at first." But he still persisted and returned it to his wife and daughter. Talk about the social significance of doing charity work. Now, his wife and daughter are his staunch supporters, and his employees and friends join him in promoting environmental protection.

Zhong Congrong, male, 50 years old, resident of Jingu Community, Liangjiang New District, Chongqing. He is the boss of three companies and has a net worth of hundreds of millions. Since the Spring Festival in 2014, he has been wandering around Jinshan Park, Jinshan Primary School, and around Aiga Sicily every day. When he sees plastic bottles, napkins, and plastic bags on the ground, he will pick them up and put them in the trash can. When he sees litter, If you don't, he will use a small speaker to remind you, please take care of the environment and don't litter. In order to get more people to join the "environmental protection" ranks, Zhong Congrong also produced slogans such as "Don't litter, I'm tired", "Littering, you lose your quality", "Leave footprints and take away the garbage" and other slogans. T-shirts and leaflets are distributed free of charge to passing citizens, and they often go to restaurants in the evenings to explain the significance of environmental protection to diners.

Some people said that Zhong Congrong was putting on a show. He smiled calmly: "I am indeed using practical actions to put on a show for the cause of environmental protection. As long as this show can awaken more people to care for and cherish the environment." If you want to protect the environment, you will definitely continue to "show". The most important thing is to follow your own path, and everything else is just a cloud."