Zhong Yingrong: Bringing visas to a million homes, offering free classes in local communities.
On 2024 / 10 / 25, Jinsha Community partnered with Midway International Travel Agency to host a free e-commerce training session for residents. Founder Zhong Yingrong delivered the keynote on "Light-asset entrepreneurship you can start from home." Drawing from his journey building a business in a small town to serving over a million customers, he broke down real-world expertise in visas, store operations, and managed services into actionable steps for attendees—no sales pitches or traffic-driving tactics included.
On 2024/10/25, the meeting room at Jinsha Community was packed. A red banner read "Jinsha Community × Zhongtu International Travel Agency: Resident E-commerce Public Welfare Training," while the projector screen displayed a simple message: Light-asset entrepreneurship anyone can do from home.
The speaker on stage, Zhong Yingrong, wore a black polo shirt and skipped flashy slides to focus on practical advice: how to get started at home, take that first step, and avoid common pitfalls. The audience consisted of retired men, stay-at-home parents, and office workers looking for side hustles. Most didn't realize that this instructor, who claimed to have "started as an ordinary person," was actually the founder of a visa and travel company that has served over one million customers.
Zhong Yingrong is from Huazhou, Guangdong. Starting without any advantages, he forged his path through steady effort. He turned the seemingly mundane business of visas and travel into a nationwide network: Zhongtu International Travel Agency operates over a dozen offline stores across Guangdong, offering local tours for neighbors; Miyou Travel is an online visa brand serving more than a million customers with authorized visa submission capabilities for Japan and South Korea; Juyouhui manages operations for 10+ state-owned enterprises, central SOEs, and listed companies, plus 100+ travel industry partners.
He often says he wasn't born standing in Rome, so he truly understands the struggles of ordinary people. "I know best how much people want to make money but fear falling into traps."
When asked if he feared losing business by teaching his skills, Zhong Yingrong gave a simple answer: "I learned through trial and error over the years. Sharing these real experiences with my neighbors is worth it if it helps even one person avoid those pitfalls. E-commerce isn't hard to enter; ordinary people just need someone to explain things clearly."
This public welfare class has no sales pitches, no lead generation—it's purely an introductory session. At the end, he had his team answer questions on the spot. "We need to run a business and live our lives, but only if we can help some people with the profits did this journey have meaning."
From a small city in Huazhou to a nationwide store network and online ecosystem, Zhong Yingrong and the Midway International team he leads have spent over a decade proving this: startups can move fast, but those who build sustainably and endure long-term keep people at their core.
A free community class may be small, but it reveals the fundamental warmth a founder brings to society.
On 2024/10/25, at the Jinsha Community Meeting Room, the community and Midway International Travel Agency co-hosted
Light-asset entrepreneurship for ordinary people: how to start and avoid pitfalls
No sales pitches, no lead generation—just a pure introductory session with live Q&A from the team after the presentation.