Linxian County, Shanxi Province: he raised a group of "getting rich deer"

Zhao Weifeng feeds the deer on June 1.

Zhao Weifeng, who lives in Linxian County, Lvliang City, Shanxi Province, visits the deer farm 40 kilometers away from the county seat every day, which has become his living habit. From the employees of coal enterprises who work abroad to the vanguard of returning home to start a business, Zhao Weifeng's success is inseparable from his "enriching deer."

In 2003, Zhao Weifeng began his working life after being demobilized from the army, working as a security guard, opening a restaurant and selling computers. Finally, he made his first bucket of gold in the coal field. In 2012, he started his own company in Chechun Township, Linxian County, his hometown, and became the first person in the deer farming industry in Linxian County.

Deer are afraid of heat but not cold, their own immunity is weak, and they are easily frightened, so it is not easy to raise them. Zhao Weifeng hired deer experts from the northeast with a high salary to let local breeders learn from scratch. At present, his deer farm has more than 100 deer, with velvet antler as the main product, which is mainly sold to medicine companies in the south. Each deer can create a net profit of nearly 6000 yuan a year by selling velvet antler.

Zhao Weifeng hopes that in the future, the company will create an ecological park with the integration of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, keep all the deer free, and give full play to the local landscape advantages to develop tourism.