The persistence of a post-90s entrepreneur

Li Qiangqiang, a post-90s boy, took up the burden of life and embarked on the arduous road of starting a business on his own when those children of his age in the city withdrew, spoiled and enjoyed the sweetness of life in front of their parents.

When I saw him, he had just come back from the market. He drove a bulky blue farm car into his narrow chicken yard with a sharp turn from the steep downhill. The chicken farm was on a flat top on the ridge of the mountain, and the mountains around it were so steep that he could not help but sweat for him. When he came out of the cab and shyly invited us into his office and dormitory house.

Li Qiangqiang is tall, dressed in camouflage, because of years of work, the wind and the sun, the face is healthy red, heavy labor and entrepreneurial pressure, can not erase the childishness.

Li Qiangqiang's house looks very shabby, with two pairs of yellow rubber shoes covered with mud under an adobe Kang. There are several instruments on a table, like an old-fashioned radio. Li Qiangqiang told reporters that it is not a radio, it is a wind turbine installation. It turns out that there is no electricity on the top of the mountain because of the high jump. It was a big problem for him when he started his business. Because if the electricity is connected from Wangshan Village at the foot of the mountain, the labor, materials and other expenses will add up to nearly 100000 yuan. You can't do without electricity. You can't raise chickens without electricity. You have to heat them up.

In the end, he solved the problem with 30,000 yuan. During his first days at the top of the mountain, he found that the wind was so strong that sometimes the planks he was going to repair the house were blowing about. He thought, why not use wind power, so he looked up information on the Internet, found professional books to study, and bought equipment to assemble himself. His power-generating blades are mounted on the roof of the house, like a windmill high into the sky. Now, he has no problem with electricity for his daily life and for raising chickens.

His house was also built by himself. The house is a simple house, from the design to the purchase of materials, are completed by themselves and friends and family. The father was firmly opposed to his son's resignation and business, which was too far from his expectations for his son. At first, he angrily refused to help when he repaired the house, but in the end, he felt sorry for his son and helped him build the house.

Li Qiangqiang has a wish this year to renovate the house and turn it into a brick house. Li Qiangqiang said that the wind is too strong here, sometimes in the middle of the night, the wind outside roars like a cow, feeling that the whole house is going to be blown away by the wind.

Li Qiangqiang, a native of Wuzhai Village, Sancha Town, graduated from Lanzhou City College in 2013 with a major in environmental science. Free-range chicken farming began in May 2014, and in the same year, a professional cooperative for ecological breeding was established, and began a hard entrepreneurial life.

After graduating from university in 2013, Li Qiangqiang originally found a job in engineering testing in Lanzhou Petrochemical Company. His internship salary was 3500 yuan a month, which will rise to more than 6000 yuan after becoming a regular employee. This is a road that most students will take, and it is a good result for him who has come all the way from the cold window of ten years in the countryside. Then in the unit down-to-earth work, seriously willing to work, you can live a safe life. However, Li Qiangqiang still did not want to live like this for the rest of his life. At the end of his internship, he chose to resign.

When he was still in college, the state advocated and supported the policy of college students to start their own business, which coincided with his restless heart and ignited his dream of youth. After returning home, he traveled everywhere and applied for a 100000 yuan loan for starting a business for college students. With one of his high school classmates as a partner, he raised a total of 130000 yuan. With the help of the township government and the village committee, his Wushan ecological breeding cooperative was set up.

The cooperative is located on the top of Dashanliang, which belongs to Wangshan Village, Shancha Township. Here, the mountains and ditches are deep, and the drought is serious. More than 1000 people from eight groups in the village are scattered on the mountains.

When I first arrived, the road leading from Panshan Road to the top of the mountain was a path, which could only accommodate frame cars. In order to transform this road, Li Qiangqiang squeezed time from morning to night to widen it. He had blisters on his hands and could not hold the tools. Li Qiangqiang still clenched his teeth. Zhao Chengtang, director of the village of Wang Shan, said that he really admired the child's spirit of enduring hardship. nowadays, rural children are all spoiled and cannot bear this hardship, so Director Zhao helps Li Qiangqiang build the road with the villagers in his spare time. Later, when the Sancha township government knew about this, it was also moved by his spirit and allocated funds for extension and repair. now on this road, there is no problem for ordinary motor vehicles to walk on this road, but the road coils around the top of the mountain, and walking on both sides of the cliffs still makes people very nervous.

The hardship of starting a business is not just that. Li Qiangqiang remembers that last winter, when it snowed heavily for several days, there was no way to walk, and the corn for the chickens ran out, so he tried to go to the farm to collect the corn. after putting it away, he went to the chicken farm to carry it. Although there is only 1.5 kilometers of road, but the road is full of snow, a little inadvertently fell, get up and continue to walk, the most a day carried more than 500 jin. In this way, he was exhausted after carrying thousands of jin of corn.

Ask him why he didn't build the chicken farm downhill, which is convenient in all aspects of life. He said that here is full of forests, the ecological environment is good, since it is ecological breeding, it must be strict with the environment, which is also responsible to customers.

Li Qiangqiang said that in the past two years since starting his business, the market for his products has sold well, and all the money he can earn has been spent on the development of chicken farms. Last year, the chicken market failed. He is ready to produce native eggs and is building his own brand. No matter how difficult the road to starting a business is, he will stick to it and grow his career.

The villagers of Wangshan Village also believe that this discerning, hard-working young man, when he made accurate poverty alleviation loans last year, four villagers brought capital into the enterprise, totaling 200000 yuan. Li Qiangqiang said that he will not let the villagers who trust him down, and work hard to lead the villagers to become rich and well-off together.