On the evening of May 20, the official official account of Nongfu Spring released the content of "Rumors and Truth against Nongfu Spring and its founder Zhong 睒睒 since February 25", Some rumors were clarified.

As for entrepreneurial opportunities, Nongfu Spring introduced that Zhong's founding of Nongfu Spring was a temporary project, not aimed at any person or enterprise. In 1996, Zhong Dang, a health care product business, went to Qiandao Lake to investigate and purchase a century old medicinal wine factory. He had lunch by the Xin'an River at noon. He was attracted by the beautiful water of Qiandao Lake, and decided to give up the purchase of the winery immediately. After dinner, we arranged to find suitable land beside the Xin'an River to prepare for the bottled water plant.

Nongfu Spring publicizes that "drinking water containing mineral elements is usually weakly alkaline" and "water containing mineral elements is more suitable for long-term drinking". The company has never published the theory of acid-base constitution, It was not called by CCTV on March 15.

Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd. (the main body of the listed company) is a limited liability company established and registered in Xihu District, Hangzhou, China, in accordance with Chinese laws. The competent authority of the enterprise is the Market Supervision Administration of Zhejiang Province. so far, Nongfu Spring and Yangshengtang Group has no company registered in the Cayman Islands or controlled by foreign capital.

Nongfu Spring will be listed in Hong Kong in 2020. There is no foreign capital before listing. After listing, the circulating part can be freely traded in the Hong Kong stock market, but the proportion is small. Nongfu Spring is completely a private enterprise of the People's Republic of China.

Zhejiang Nongfu Industrial Development Co., Ltd. is only a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring. Nongfu Spring submitted an application to the industry and commerce administration on February 23, 2024 to change the legal representative of the subsidiary. It was approved on February 27, which was a normal personnel adjustment. The so-called "escape" and other statements are pure rumors. At present, Zhong Zong is still the legal representative of Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd.

Since its inception, Nongfu Spring has never evaded taxes. Tax payment is an obligation of enterprises, not a means of publicity. Before 2024, Nongfu Shanquan only disclosed the corporate income tax according to the requirements of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, but did not disclose the total tax amount. This year, Nongfu Spring announced in the ESG bulletin that the full range tax payment in 2023 will be 6.8 billion yuan.

The bottle of Nongfu Spring is marked with the enterprise standard Q/NFS 00018-2021. Enterprise standards are formulated based on the implementation of national, local and industrial standards. In general, enterprise standards are higher than industry standards, industry standards are higher than national standards, and national standards are the most basic standards.

Nongfu Spring Natural Water Enterprise Standard is formulated on the basis of implementing GB 5749 Drinking Water Hygiene Standard and GB 19298 National Food Safety Standard Packaged Drinking Water. 28 indicators, including arsenic and cadmium, are stricter than relevant national standards. None of the requirements is lower than the requirements of national standards.

At present, there are twelve major water sources in Nongfu Spring, including nine mountain spring type water sources: Changbai Mountain in Jilin Province, Mohe Daxing'an Mountains in Heilongjiang Province, Wuling Mountain in Guizhou Province, Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province, Taibai Mountain in Shaanxi Province, Emei Mountain in Sichuan Province, Daming Mountain in Guangxi Province, Manas Mountain in Tianshan in Xinjiang Province, and Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province; Deep water of three alpine lakes: Danjiangkou, Qiandao Lake and Wanlu Lake. The above water sources are all high-quality natural water sources.

Most of the raw materials of oriental leaves are domestic, and a small amount of them are from Sri Lanka and other regions.

The number 1588 on the bottle of Changbai Snow stands for "up to 1588 kinds of wild animals live in Changbai Mountain area", The data comes from the official website of Baishan Municipal People's Government and the Changbai Mountain Management Committee.

By the end of March 2024, the total social donations of Nongfu Spring and Yangshengtang Group had exceeded 900 million yuan.

At 23:59 on December 18, 2023, the Jishishan 6.2 earthquake in Gansu Province, when employees and dealers in Nongfu Shanquan Gansu Qinghai Ningxia Region saw the news, they immediately organized the allocation and transportation. Two and a half hours later, the first batch of water was sent to the victims' resettlement sites, which was also the first batch of relief materials received by the relief sites. In the next five days, employees and dealers in the region braved the risk of aftershocks and moved around the disaster stricken areas, delivering a total of 200000 bottles/barrels of water to the flood victims.

Water is the most urgently needed disaster relief materials, and the transportation process is very difficult. Every donation of disaster relief drinking water from Nongfu Spring is delivered to the front line of the disaster area or the disaster site at the risk of employees.

(Official Official Account of Nongfu Mountain Spring)