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a well-known medical company suddenly received bad news: the founder passed away and sold his villa to return to his hometown

2024-09-23

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on the evening of september 22, david medical announced that chen yunqin, the company's founder, controlling shareholder and one of the actual controllers, died on september 20 due to illness. he was 82 years old.

david medical announced that the company had received a notice from chen yunqin's family that chen yunqin passed away on september 20 at the age of 82 due to illness.

public information shows that chen yunqin was born in 1942. he previously served as director and vice chairman of david medical, and also served as president of ningbo medical device industry association and vice president of zhejiang medical device industry association.

as of the end of june 2024, chen yunqin is the second largest shareholder of david medical, holding 21.12% of the shares. according to david medical, chen yunqin, chen zaihong and chen zaiwei are father and son, and are the actual controllers of the company.

david medical stated that currently, the company's board of directors, board of supervisors and senior management team members are performing their duties normally, and all business activities are carried out normally.

according to public information, david medical was established in 1992. it is a national high-tech enterprise integrating independent research and development, production and sales. it is the first listed company in the domestic medical device industry's infant care equipment segment to successfully land on the shenzhen stock exchange's growth enterprise market.

at the beginning of its listing, the company's main business was to provide professional infant care equipment solutions and medical devices. after 30 years of development, the company has continued to expand its product line layout and gradually transformed into a platform-type medical device company covering three major areas: pediatric care equipment, minimally invasive surgical instruments, and emergency surgery icu products. among them, pediatric care equipment and minimally invasive surgical instruments have formed a complete r&d, production, and sales business chain, which is the company's core business. emergency surgery icu products are currently in the layout and r&d stage, which is the company's strategic layout business. in the first half of this year, the company achieved operating income of 266 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 16.23%; net profit attributable to the parent was 46.5261 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 49.31%.

in the first half of the year, the company accelerated its pace of globalization and further increased its overseas market sales share and profitability. the company's overseas business of pediatric childcare equipment achieved operating income of rmb 74.853 million, an increase of 8.59% over the same period last year, and the company's overseas business of minimally invasive surgical instruments achieved operating income of rmb 29.9682 million, an increase of 5.62% over the same period last year.

in terms of stock price, as of the latest, the company's stock price is 9.8 yuan per share, with a total market value of approximately 2.8 billion yuan.

according to a 2018 report by ningbo daily, chen yunqin grew up on gaotang island in xiangshan county, ningbo. on a rainy day in 2015, chen yunqin, who was returning home, passed by the gaotang island township health center and found that the hospital facilities were old and the buildings were dilapidated. it was raining heavily outside and lightly inside. some of the walls of the houses were falling off and moldy, and some even met the standards for dangerous buildings. he was very moved by this.

not long after, gaotangdao township received good news: chen yunqin decided to sell a villa in dancheng to support the construction of a new health center in his hometown, and he did his best to get the approval of relevant county departments. in july of the same year, chen yunqin signed a donation agreement with the county charity association, entrusting the other party to auction the villa through an auction company, and the proceeds of 12 million yuan were donated to the new health center in gaotangdao township. this is also the largest single donation in the history of xiangshan charity.

"the best destination for wealth is to give back to society! in the future, i will continue to contribute to the public welfare of my hometown," said chen yunqin. it is understood that he established the "chen zai charity foundation" in 2007 to develop the medical industry in his hometown and help the needy.