Wu Guohui, a model worker for raising soft-shelled turtles in Nanfeng, Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province

Recently, a special reporter from Evening News came to Tianpeng Turtle Breeding Base in Xiayang Village, Taihe Town, Nanfeng County. Wu Guohui, a large turtle breeding household, is teaching turtle breeding technology in a greenhouse. "The water depth of the young turtle breeding pond should be kept between 0.3 meters and 0.4 meters. The water should be changed once every three days. The water color should be green. A small amount of green plants such as water hyacinth can be put into the water to improve the water quality, so that the turtle seedlings can hide from each other and avoid mutual harm." Wu Guohui said to the farmers who came to learn.

It is heard that Wu Guohui has become a well-known "turtle king" in Xiayang Village, Taihe Town, Nanfeng County by relying on his return home breeding turtle. The special reporter of Evening News decided to conduct an exclusive interview with him. Wu Guohui was born in Meixi Village, Shishan Town, Nanfeng County in May 1987. In order to reduce the burden on his parents, he went to Shenzhen to work alone at the age of 15. Because of his young age, it is difficult to find a job. Wu Guohui first learned carpentry from his teacher, participated in various carpentry training classes, and obtained the intermediate qualification of manual carpentry. Later, he went to Dongguan Lighting Co., Ltd. as LED lighting salesman and sales director. After seven years of hard work outside, Wu Guohui had some savings. He wanted to take advantage of his youth to do a career outside and win glory for his family. Therefore, Wu Guohui told his family the idea of breeding soft-shelled turtle, and soon got the consent of his family.

In 2009, with the support of family and relatives and friends, Wu Guohui started turtle breeding road. He successively went to Zhejiang, Guangdong turtle main production area study investigation, in Baishe Town Wangtian Village transfer 260 mu of land, built the first turtle farm, develop turtle production. From the planning and design of the construction site to the digging of the pond, the clearing of the pond, the selection and breeding of seedlings, the breeding management and the marketing, Wu Guohui personally did it. At that time, Wu Guohui breeding turtle not only earned back the cost, but also made a profit of more than 2 million yuan, earned life "the first bucket of gold".

In the first half of 2011, Wu Guohui invested more than 17 million yuan to purchase 150,000 Japanese purebred soft-shelled turtles from Hangzhou Xiaoshan Tianfu Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Province. Relying on the breeding technology accumulated for many years, he carried out the experiment in his own farm first. The result was successful, and the net profit of that year was more than 10 million yuan.

After becoming rich, Wu Guohui did not forget the farmers who had supported and helped him, and decided to lead the farmers to do business together. In 2012, Wu Guohui registered and established Jiangxi Tianpeng Ecological Agriculture Co., Ltd., adopting the mode of unified provision of seedlings, unified technical guidance and unified purchase of products for production and operation. Through the mode of "company + good breeding base + farmer households", 430 farmers in Taihe Town were driven to engage in turtle breeding, egg breeding, turtle breeding and commodity turtle production, with an annual income of more than 70,000 yuan per household. At present, Wu Guohui's company has a breeding area of more than 2000 mu, absorbing 110 migrant workers, selling 8 million soft-shelled turtle eggs, 100,000 kilograms of soft-shelled turtle seeds, 1 million kilograms of commercial soft-shelled turtle, and an annual output value of more than 80 million yuan. The improved soft-shelled turtle seeds basically reach the provincial standard for the construction of the original fine breeding farm of aquatic products, becoming the most influential breeding base of Chinese soft-shelled turtle in our province.

In May 2015, Wu Guohui was awarded as a model worker in Jiangxi Province. In April 2016, he was elected as the first president of Turtle Industry Association of Nanfeng County. Talking about future plans, Wu Guohui said that the company's next step will focus on building a one-stop turtle industry chain such as breeding of fine turtle varieties, greenhouse breeding, ecological health commodity turtle breeding, reserve parent turtle breeding and commodity turtle sales.