On the evening of September 12, SSSW issued an obituary, stating that the company's director and deputy general manager, Liu Zhonghua, passed away due to a sudden illness in the early hours of September 12, 2025, at Taizhou People's Hospital, at the age of 56. The obituary noted that Liu Zhonghua graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University and was an expert in molecular biology in China, engaged in virology and molecular biology research for a long time. He previously worked at the Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and conducted collaborative research at the New York Blood Center and Rockefeller University in the United States from 2008 to 2009. He joined SSSW in 2010