The tumbling secondary market performance, so that Maotai frequently on the hot search. Even the “price limit order” “stepping on the curved girl” “sauce-type academician” these or false news, also become the focus of external attention.
But the Maotai “myth” has not been destroyed, the market is still a wine hard to find, behind the more capital for Maotai shares.
Among them, once in the eye of the storm of public opinion, Wang Li, together with Maotai, remained silent – as the chief engineer of Maotai Group, chief quality officer, she was previously shortlisted for co-option to the Chinese Communist Party Academy of Engineering.
Who would have thought that Wang Li, a Shaanxi native who ran to Guizhou for love, would go from being a non-drinker at the beginning to becoming a pivotal figure in Maotai, with many honors and patented technologies, and then to be “shortlisted as an academician” in such a way as to reach the world …… Wang Li in Maotai’s “reversal of fortune”
If there is no “academician” fiasco, Wang Li’s previous Life and work can be described as a good year.
The story of “because of love” is a romantic label on this chief engineer of Maotai Group.
In 1994, she graduated from the Northwest Institute of Light Industry (now Shaanxi University of Science and Technology), and then went to Guizhou to take root in the mountains. “What guided me, a Northwesterner, to come to Maotai in the deep southwest mountains, quite simply, because of love”, Wang Li once explained about her connection to Maotai.
Wang Li and her husband both graduated from the Northwest Institute of Light Industry and both worked at Maotai. 2018, Wang Li and her husband returned to their alma mater together and donated the 90th anniversary of the Panama Gold Medal Maotai wine that both of them had collected for years. Her husband’s identity at the Time was that of chairman of the Guizhou Maotai Distillery (Group) Logistics Limited Liability Company in mainland China.
The love story about the two became a beautiful story for a while ……
Image source: Shaanxi University of Science and Technology official website
At the beginning of Wang Li’s arrival at Guizhou Maotai, the group’s research institute analysis group was just one more person who dealt with wine but didn’t drip it. For a long time after that, she was not known to the outside world.
Until 2000, Wang Li’s time came.
At that time, Wang Li passed all the way to the national liquor jury. After that, Wang Li became more and more successful in Maotai, eventually becoming the first female chief engineer and chief quality officer in the history of Maotai, mastering the lifeline of the national wine development. In 2019, she was awarded the title of “Great National Craftsman” for the first batch of light industry in China.
According to media reports, Wang Li is the disciple of Ji Keliang, the former chairman of Maotai Group and the “Godfather of Maotai”. In many occasions attended by Ji Keliang, Wang Li’s figure also often appears.
Although her position in Maotai is prominent, and she has a reputation in the liquor industry, Wang Li has suffered a “setback” in climbing to another peak in her life – the “academician” fiasco has kept her behind the scenes She has been working behind the scenes, and is deeply involved in the public opinion. Use ginger, chili pepper to enhance the intensity of alcohol
On the official website of the State Intellectual Property Office, information about Wang Li’s academic achievements can be easily retrieved.
For example, in June 2018, Guizhou Maotai (Group) Ecological Agricultural Industry Development Co., Ltd. applied to the State Intellectual Property Office as the patent owner for no less than three patent applications, in which the extracts of chili pepper + mustard, ginger + chili pepper, and mustard + ginger were used to enhance alcohol intensity.
Wang Li appears as the inventor of several of the above patents.
In the technical patent information of application number CN201810583223.3, the invention announced a formulated wine formula and modulation process using ginger and chili pepper to enhance alcoholic strength, which is made by mixing the following raw materials: ginger extract, chili pepper extract, base wine, adding appropriate amount of pure water and juice to adjust the alcoholic strength to 0.5-40% vol, without aerating.
Similarly, a formulation and preparation process of a prepared wine using chili pepper and mustard to enhance alcoholic strength, and a formulation and preparation process of a prepared wine using mustard and ginger to enhance alcoholic strength, are identical to the aforementioned formulation and preparation process of prepared wine.
Image source: State Intellectual Property Office For example, the number of plant extracts is equal and the number of base wines is also equal. The beneficial effects of the invention are all in achieving a high alcoholic strength without increasing the alcoholic strength, while not being easily intoxicated ……
The company that applied for the patent, a wholly owned subsidiary of Guizhou Maotai Group, produces blueberry wine with blueberry, chrysanthemum, rose, apple and lemon extracts as the raw material of soy wine.
But the above-mentioned patents, are not exclusive to Wang Li, is a joint invention with several people, of which Wang Li signatures are listed in the seventh.
The person in charge of a domestic liquor company said he had never heard of adding ginger and mustard to improve the taste and strength of the wine, which should only be an example.
But strictly speaking, the use of ginger and chili peppers to enhance the strength of wine is not the first of its kind, such as Wang Li. In Shangluo, Shaanxi Province, there is similar behavior in folk wine making. Maotai ranks 10th in the number of patents
There are actually many patented technologies in the liquor industry.
Recently, the Enterprise Chacha Big Data Research Institute launched the “Enterprise Chacha Top 20 Liquor Patent Companies List”, which takes the top 20 patent companies, top 20 invention patent companies, top 20 utility model patent companies and top 20 design patent companies as dimensions, and does some sorting out of the liquor industry.
Among the “Top 20 Patent Companies”, Gujing Gonjiu ranks first in the “Top 20 Liquor Patent Companies” list with 974 valid patents, Wuliangye ranks second with 911 valid patents, and Guizhou Maotai ranks 10th with 127 patents.
However, in the list of top 20 utility model patents, Maotai topped the list with 33 valid invention patents. Among them, Wang Li’s name appears among the inventors of core brewing process patents such as “a strain of lactic acid-resistant ester-producing Bacillus subtilis” and “a kind of Bacillus licheniformis and the preparation method of the macromolecule prepared therefrom and the preparation method of the macromolecule”.
Image source: Enterprise search
In addition, according to Enterprise Search, Wang Li appears as the inventor of 56 of Guizhou Maotai’s granted patents, although she is not the first inventor of many patents (most of her patents are for appearance and testing methods).
Much of Wang Li’s impact on the liquor industry is reflected outside of patents.
In 2016, Wang Li’s Master Tasting and Blending Skills Studio was established. Three years later, the studio received a major upgrade in specifications – it was named a national master skills studio in liquor tasting and blending.
According to some media reports at the time, in the three years since its establishment, Wang Li’s Master Skill Studio “has trained a total of 5 national-level liquor judges, 20 Guizhou provincial-level liquor judges, 13 national-level sommeliers, 21 national-level sommeliers, 1 senior engineer, 12 brewing engineers, and led multiple fields such as Maotai base wine resource planning, wine body design, and tasting Culture promotion project research, so that the quality of Maotai wine and series of wine products is steadily improved.”
Although the outside world is constantly questioning Wang Li’s appointment as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and even the central media reminded “when cautious,” but the Guizhou Daily stressed that the qualifications of “Maotai academicians” should not be taken lightly… …
The person in question, Wang Li, may no longer be able to age well.
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