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As the battle for the inheritance of Zong Qinghou, the founder of Chinese beverage giant Wahaha, continues to ferment, according to Phoenix.com, Zong Qinghou has not only Zong Fuli and the other three children who were exposed recently, but a total of seven children.

Phoenix.com quoted an insider on Thursday (July 17, 2025) as saying that the mother of Zong Jichang, Zong Jieli and Zong Jisheng is indeed Du Jianying, a veteran of Wahaha, but the online rumor that Zong Jisheng was born in 2017 is not accurate.

It is reported that the biological mother of the Zong family child born in 2017 is a young female employee. According to insiders, this employee had made trouble in front of Wahaha's Qingtai Street headquarters many times because she was dissatisfied with the child support provided by Zong Qinghou. The company also sent an email to remind employees to avoid contact with her. The chronology compiled by the Zong family for Zong Qinghou's father Zong Qi𫘧 in 2018 clearly mentioned that in addition to Zong Fuli, Zong Qinghou has six children.

This means that in addition to the three children born to Zong Fuli and Du Jianying, and the child born to a female employee in 2017, Zong Qinghou has two children that have not been made public.

Another insider said that before Du Jianying, another employee had given birth to a daughter for Zong Qinghou. After Du Jianying entered the core of power, the mother and daughter settled in the United States.

In addition, Du Jianying mentioned in an interview with an education self-media in 2021 that in 2014, the eldest and second of her three children were already attending high school in the United States. This also indirectly confirms that Du Jianying had three children before 2017.