Zhang Ming, the "coal boss", returned to the mountain forest to "Taobao".

He is in Inner Mongolia, but Zhang Ming, the "coal boss", keeps an eye on the development and changes of his hometown. The integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and Beijing holding the 2022 Winter Olympic Games hand in hand have brought unprecedented development opportunities to Zhangjiakou. Outsiders come to Zhangjiakou to look for business opportunities. As Zhangjiakou people, why not go back to their hometown to start a career? In 2012, Zhang Ming began to develop green ecological farming and characteristic tourism in Wanquan with funds, and embarked on a new entrepreneurial road.

Zhang Ming is looking at the grain used to make wine.

Become a "coal boss"

Zhang Ming is a 48-year-old native of Simalin Town, Wanquan District. In 2004, he walked out of Wanquan and went to Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, and opened a coal warehouse with friends. The coal from Ordos was transferred in their coal stack, then transported to Wanquan, and then transported from Wanquan to Shandong, Tianjin, Beijing and other places.

Zhang Ming worked as a "coal boss" in Hohhot for nearly 10 years, which allowed him to accumulate funds. In recent years, the use of coal is decreasing, and the coal business is becoming more and more difficult. Zhang Ming is aware that the coal stack industry will be limited in order to protect the environment, and he wants to go with the trend and do some green ecological projects.

In Inner Mongolia, Zhang Ming is always watching the development and changes of his hometown. The integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and Beijing holding the 2022 Winter Olympic Games hand in hand with Zhangjiakou will bring unprecedented development opportunities to Zhangjiakou. Outsiders come to Zhangjiakou to look for business opportunities. As Zhangjiakou people, why not go back to their hometown to find some world?

In 2012, Zhang Ming returned to Wanquan to look for development opportunities in his hometown.

There is a 150 mu woodland in Deshengbao Village, Beisha City and Countryside. This woodland was contracted by Beijing merchants. It originally wanted to engage in rare animal breeding, but there was a high-voltage line nearby, which was not suitable for rare animal breeding, so it had to be given up. After learning about it, Zhang Ming contracted this woodland to provide natural, safe and pollution-free animal products, forest and fruit products for the market.

After the improvement of people's living standards, return to nature, enjoy nature, yearning for pollution-free food consumption, has become a new social fashion, which will be the mainstream of the food industry in the future, with a huge market space. He wants to shift the focus of his career to green ecological farming, providing customers with end products such as free-range mutton, black-haired pork and bad beef.

Aim at the green waters and green mountains

In order to lay a solid foundation for ecological breeding, Zhang Ming extends the industrial chain, starting with feed, ensuring green and natural, and providing high-quality animal products to the market.

Zhang Ming drilled a deep well, and after testing, the well water was high-quality mineral water. He used the well water to produce liquor with sorghum, corn and grain bran as raw materials, and through the process of fermentation, sterilization and saccharification, the distiller's grains produced is a kind of high-quality feed-aseptic saccharified feed.

Saccharified feed is rich in nutrients, which is incomparable to general cereal feed. 100 kg aseptic saccharified feed is fed directly to ruminants such as cattle and sheep, and the feeding benefit is equivalent to the sum of 450-600 kg corn, 30-40 kg forage grass and 40-100 kg wheat grass. The animals raised by aseptic saccharified feed are healthy, do not get sick, do not need epidemic prevention and treatment, and subtract veterinary drug residues.

At the same time, Zhang Ming planted economic forests such as big apricot flat, meat apricot and begonia in the forest, and the company can harvest natural, safe and pollution-free forest and fruit products. At the same time, he planted miscellaneous grains among fruit trees to provide auxiliary feed for fattening the culture area. The feces of cattle and sheep are high-quality farm manure, all of which are applied to the orchard, which not only promotes the growth of fruit trees, but also realizes the three-dimensional circulation management model.

Transformation of ecological farming

Zhang Ming fenced the woodland and built a breeding enclosure. In the first year, he bought lambs from Bashang at 800 yuan each. He raised 300 lambs. The fattening sheep on the market take only three or four months from lamb to fattening, while Zhang Ming's sheep do not feed fattening feed until seven months, but let them graze on the pollution-free grassland of apricot woodland, drink mineral water after grazing, and replenish forage and lees at the same time. Artificially grazed sheep have good meat quality and are beneficial to human health after eating.

The initial idea was good, but the mutton market was not good. Each of the hard-raised sheep sold for only 230 yuan, and he lost 300000 yuan in the first year of raising sheep. "the mutton market is not good, so we can only reduce the number of sheep, but we have to raise it. There is always a time when the market will improve." Zhang Ming said.

After losing money in raising sheep, he introduced more than 100 black pigs. Black pigs are closely related to wild boars. Black pork has marbling lines, delicious meat, good intermuscular fat precipitation, and fat meat is not greasy at all.

Unlike pork on the market, black pigs have a long growth cycle and do not come out for more than a year. He set the price of the black pig at 29 yuan, which can be sold for more than 50 yuan in Beijing. But the locals do not recognize the black pig, and the price is too high to sell, and the black pig has grown to 16 or 17 months and weighs more than 200 jin, so it is even more uneconomical to keep it up, so he has to reduce the price of the black pig.

Raising black pigs did not make money, but experts assessed Zhang Ming's black pigs, saying that his black pigs had been raised for more than a year. Six or seven people engaged in pig sales in the urban area also took a fancy to Zhang Ming's black pig and bought goods from him, and the public gradually realized that the black pig was of good meat quality, which increased Zhang Ming's confidence.