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In March 2025, Meiling Guo visited Wuhan to enjoy the cherry blossoms again. Five years ago, she led 276 medical staff to support the anti - epidemic work. When delivering anti - epidemic supplies to the Wuhan University Alumni Association, the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, and everyone enjoyed a "private cherry blossom viewing session." On the fifth anniversary this year, everyone organized a reunion at the old place, and the scene was very different.
As the Vice Chairperson of Meinian OneHealth, Meiling Guo has a tight schedule and arranges her work by the hour. Before the interview, she had just returned from Europe, where she had exchanges with charity partners. She has many other identities: Chairperson of Century Galaxy Group, Director of the China Social Welfare Foundation, the first Chinese female racer to participate in the Dakar Rally, and Honorary Director of the Beijing "Kyosei Juku," among others. These identities may seem unrelated, but in fact, they all revolve around her exploration and reflection on life.
At the beginning of her entrepreneurial journey, she firmly adhered to the principle that "running a business is like cultivating oneself." She conducts herself and does things with a clear conscience, aiming to do things that benefit the public and society. Thus, she dedicated herself to the cause of "serving the health of the general public." Century Galaxy Group, founded by her, has investment as one of its core businesses. It breaks through from the preventive end of the large health field and has invested in and participated in the operation of dozens of projects. Among them, Meinian OneHealth went public in 2015, becoming the first stock in the Chinese physical examination industry.
Running a business is just one of her means. Meiling Guo believes in Kazuo Inamori's business philosophy of "accumulating good deeds and thinking of others." She is actively involved in social charity, supporting the education and employment of orphaned and poor teenagers, exploring a sustainable mechanism for talent growth, and guiding young people in innovation and entrepreneurship. Charity has become an important part of her life.
Beyond her career, she has never stopped exploring the limits of life. Despite her gentle appearance, she loves extreme sports. She goes mountain climbing, rock climbing, and takes on Gobi challenges. She is also a dual - discipline racer in motorcycle and car off - road rallies. "These sports have taught me that life is a process of constantly breaking through oneself and tempering the soul." By challenging herself in the speed and passion of these sports, she has gained a profound understanding of the meaning of life.
She has been a vegetarian for 15 years and has been practicing daily self - reflection for 10 years. She integrates these "spiritual practices" into her life as a form of spiritual nourishment. She approves of and practices Kazuo Inamori's "way of living" - the meaning of life lies in leaving this world with a nobler soul than when we came into it.
Business Ethics Are the Ethics of the Heart
"Why do people live?" Meiling Guo was often so troubled by this question during her junior high school years that she couldn't sleep. In the 1980s, during her high school years, she resolutely left school to start her own business. She learned how to make clothes, opened processing shops, and established garment factories. Despite repeated failures, she persevered.
In 1994, by chance, Meiling Guo started engaging in the agency and trade of medical consumables, and her business finally began to show some signs of success.
At this stage, she started thinking intensively about what her next goal should be. She set her sights on the broader field of public health. "It's better to prevent diseases than to cure them." She believed that the problem should be solved at its source: one can achieve health without injections or taking medicine.
She further defined her mission as "serving the health of the general public," and Century Galaxy Group adopted this as its corporate mission. In 2007, Meiling Guo made an angel investment in Shenyang Healthcare Physical Examination and later served as its chairperson, entering the physical examination industry. It was precisely through this platform that in 2011, it merged with Shanghai Meinian OneHealth to form today's Meinian OneHealth, which later went public. Currently, Meinian OneHealth has nearly 600 physical examination centers, 56,000 employees, and provides health check - ups and health management services to 30 million people every year.
Meiling Guo's investment logic has always revolved around public health issues, with a focus on the preventive end of the medical and health field. The corporate landscape she has invested in and participated in empowering operations includes projects such as Meinian OneHealth, Mega Genomics, Happy Dental, Haier Home Medical, Yishengdaojia, Regumed GmbH, and Little Apple Pediatricians, covering areas such as health check - ups, genetic testing, dental care, bio - electromagnetic medicine, and home medical devices.
Over more than 30 years of entrepreneurship, Meiling Guo has faced many temptations, such as real estate investment and the secondary capital market. However, she always chooses to "measure by value" and insists on investing in "business for good" projects with social value. Among these, Yishengdaojia, which mainly offers door - to - door traditional Chinese medicine massage, has successfully been selected as a Harvard impact investment case with its "Internet + health service" model, combining social responsibility and commercial value.
Among these investment projects, more than a dozen are directly controlled or wholly - owned by Century Galaxy Group, and about ten have Century Galaxy Group as the second - largest shareholder.
However, Meiling Guo rarely interferes in the actual operations of the holding companies. She advocates the concepts of "the highest good is like water" and "governing by doing nothing that goes against nature." More often, she is like an "organizer": she builds platforms, finds suitable enterprise operators, and chooses to trust them. She sums up her strength as being able to organize and unite entrepreneurs with a common value orientation to form a win - win cooperation platform. Although this may sound a bit abstract, the result is that "she has a great cooperation with many CEOs."
She is constantly looking for more projects to solve social pain points and then plays a leveraging role. "If we find the right fulcrum and strive to leverage it, society will continue to progress and become more and more beautiful."
Meiling Guo's advocated business philosophy includes two directions: social responsibility and creating a happy enterprise. She believes that the role of an "entrepreneur" is to build a platform and be a "servant" to employees. Employees are the real protagonists on the stage, and through their own efforts and struggles, they can ultimately achieve their life values.
At Meinian OneHealth, Meiling Guo is mainly in charge of corporate culture, charity, and social responsibility. As a female manager, she advocates flexible management - tapping into the inner goodness and aspirations of employees to stimulate their enthusiasm and initiative.
She ranks the values of corporate culture as follows: first, employee happiness; second, customer trust; third, social responsibility; fourth, shareholder returns."When we put employees first, the entire logic and process of doing things will be particularly smooth. Especially under such a value system, proactive employees will continue to emerge. They will be more dedicated to serving customers. When customers are satisfied, the enterprise value will be enhanced invisibly, and market revenue, employment, and shareholder returns will naturally be good. This is a virtuous cycle, a cycle of a happy enterprise."
In 2009, after reading Kazuo Inamori's ideas, Meiling Guo deeply resonated with them. The following year, she compiled a book titled "Business Philosophy" within the company. Opening this booklet, the dozen or so small pages carry limited text but convey simple values such as "integrity," "responsibility," and "diligence." To this day, the company's employees are still learning and practicing these values through morning readings, check - ins, sharing sessions, and reading clubs to improve their mental state and create a good internal atmosphere. Even some former employees actively participate.
Accumulate Good Deeds and Think of Others
Meiling Guo always takes cultivating her mind as a self - requirement.
At the age of 42 in 2010, she entered the racing circle and started a legendary racing life as a female entrepreneur. In 2011 and 2012, she participated in the China Ring Tower Rally for two consecutive years and won the overall runner - up in the motorcycle ATV (All - Terrain Vehicle) category and the women's group championship in the 2012 China Ring Tower Off - Road Rally. In 2014, she participated in the China Cross - Country Rally and ranked 22nd in the entire stage. In 2015, she participated in the China Ring Tower Rally again and ranked 21st in the entire stage.
She likes to temper herself in various outdoor sports. On the one hand, it is to strengthen her physique, and on the other hand, it is to temper her soul. "I think life is a process of constantly tempering the soul, and it requires constantly breaking through the previous shells."
During the races, she had to shuttle through deserts, riverbeds, marshy salt pans, and yardang landforms. These experiences led her to incorporate "the courage to challenge" into the corporate culture and also made her bolder in some investment projects.
In 2016, she participated in the 37th Dakar Rally. When her racing car lost control and rushed out of the track, injuring spectators, she took the initiative to end her racing career. Talking about this experience many years later, she still feels very guilty about the injured spectators.
During the pandemic, she even sent anti - epidemic supplies to Argentina, the location of the event, to express her apology and gratitude. This experience also revealed a side of her soul - "she was too eager to win." She admits that "one should not only have the courage to move forward but also the courage to retreat," especially since enterprise operators are a group with a strong sense of "self - confidence."
That accident, in fact, also carried a public welfare mission. At that time, she was promoting and raising funds for the "Fishing Skill Grant Program" public welfare project. It is understood that the "Fishing Skill Grant Program", established in 2013, donates funds every year to support orphans and poor students to complete their studies. It is a public welfare project with Meinian OneHealth as one of the initiators, and Meiling Guo is the chairperson of the "Fishing Skill Grant Program" Public Welfare Promotion Center.
Altruism is an important color in Meiling Guo's life. Since the beginning of her entrepreneurship, she has been sponsoring poor classmates and subsidizing the elderly. Now, she has launched projects such as "public welfare physical examinations for vulnerable groups" and "CD - ROM campaign check - ins", and established the Meinian OneHealth Public Welfare Foundation, the Meiling Public Welfare Foundation, and several public welfare special funds. Her original intention to engage in public welfare comes from her sense of social responsibility. "Individuals are extremely small, and what we can do is limited. I'm honored to do my bit to promote social harmony and beauty," which is also the direction she set in her heart at the beginning of her entrepreneurial journey.
In the past two years, she has put more energy into the "Meiling Future Sci - Tech Entrepreneur Plan". She jointly launched this plan with several well - known entrepreneurship mentors. It aims to discover and guide future sci - tech talents from various universities and research institutions. This is one of her wishes in the second half of her life: to be a good talent scout and help future talents. She devotes a lot of time and energy to brainstorming and creating with outstanding young entrepreneurs, providing support in many aspects such as project initiation, team building, financing, and marketing to solve the problems of entrepreneurial teams.
She has found that the biggest confusion for young people in innovation and entrepreneurship today is a lack of clear direction, and the biggest problem is a lack of courage. "It's not that I'm so amazing. It's just that we've been at those crossroads and don't want others to make the same mistakes. As a forerunner, I just want to provide some inspiration."
Standing at the current juncture, Meiling Guo's vision has extended even further. She has a "Silver Bell Healthcare Plan" in mind, aiming to inspire the large number of newly retired "silver - haired youth" to develop palliative care. In her view, newly retired silver - haired youth have rich life experience and energy, while the palliative care group needs more care and support. If an ecological mutual assistance system can be formed, it will not only be an optimal allocation of social resources but also a transmission of human warmth.
Although she has achieved certain success in the fields of public welfare and business, Meiling Guo doesn't like to be labeled as an "entrepreneur" or a "philanthropist". She prefers to position herself as an "enterprise operator" and a "public welfare and charity enthusiast". She says, "I'm just an ordinary doer, doing what I can. In the future, I will continue to work hard, and I hope more people will join me to contribute to the health and happiness of the general public."
