Li Jinheng, a college student who returned to his hometown to start a business: climb bravely on the road to prosperity.

Located in the southeast of Weining Autonomous County, Hechang Village, Longchang Town, is an extremely remote and remote mountain village with high mountains and steep roads, with an average elevation of 2200 meters above sea level. In the Longjiayuan group in this small mountain village, college student Li Jinheng, with the support of his parents, returned home to start a business and raised an emu at home.

The more wit, the less courage

For this remote mountain village in Longchang Town, Weining Autonomous County, Li Jinheng can be regarded as a "golden Phoenix" flying out of the mountain gully. However, in the eyes of this fellow-townsman, the "top student" did not follow the path of most college students taking exams to find a career after graduation. He felt that he was at the top of the pack in 360 lines.

Li Jinheng, who just graduated from college in 2010, can be described as "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers". He was born with an extraordinary aggressiveness. His life dream is to earn enough money to let his parents, who have worked hard for most of their lives, move out of the village and live a happy life.

With a dream, Li Jinheng, who had just stepped out of school in 2010, resolutely chose to come to the construction site and did coolie work with the craftsmen.

Because Li Jinheng has a good level of education, coupled with his words, dare to think and dare to do, quickly won the appreciation of the boss, and soon stood out from the ordinary masons and became a project manager. In less than two years, Li Jinheng won the trust of his boss by virtue of his own strength and became the person in charge of the construction site.

Over the years, Li Jinheng made some money from the construction site, and he bought a house and a car. At the same time, Li Jinheng, who made money, also drove the excavator on his construction site back to his hometown and opened a rough road more than two meters wide on the ridge of the unopened road.

However, the glamorous Li Jinheng lost all his money in an inadvertent investment, and the painful lesson made this sunny young man who was originally "not afraid of tigers" taste a lot of pain, and for the first time he had the idea of changing the direction of starting a business.

After several visits and consideration, Li Jinheng feels that what is most missing at the moment is green food. In the end, he decided to return to his hometown to breed or plant.

Li Jinheng's parents are feeding the emu.

Raising emu is supported by parents

While Li Jinheng was thinking about how to return to his hometown to start a business and become rich, on a trip to Shanghai, he met a big emu farmer surnamed Chen. In the process of serious communication, Li Jinheng learned that emu farming is a new and untapped industry with great market potential and is very suitable for starting a business.

Li Jinheng is an easy-to-do person. After understanding that the emu farming industry is very suitable for him, Li Jinheng immediately made up his mind to go with that friend surnamed Chen to Guangzhou, Australia and other places to conduct field visits to emu farming. During the investigation, it is found that emus are not only rare, but also full of treasures, the meat quality is better than beef, oil can be used as raw materials such as medicine and cosmetics, eggs are ornamental, and they can also be used as works of art. After the inspection, Li Jinheng was very happy to get the treasure, so he immediately went to learn the breeding technology, and then rushed back to his hometown to build a breeding base, ready to invest in breeding emu.

After months of careful preparation, a base of more than 200 square meters surrounded by cement bricks was built. With the help of friends, in January 2014, Li Jinheng spent more than 100,000 yuan to transport 120 young emus from Australia by "sea, air and passenger transport" all the way back to his hometown Heduan village.

According to incomplete statistics, the cost of raising an emu is about 10 yuan a day, and its growth period is relatively slow. it takes almost three years to mature before it can lay eggs and make money, and the sale of the whole emu is the best time.

Due to the high cost of emu breeding, it is very difficult for Li Jinheng to breed, and there is a shortage of funds and difficulties.

Faced with the shortage of funds and difficulties, Li Jinheng had to go back to the construction site to do the hard work that had cost him all his money, earning money to help raise emus. The burden of raising and taking care of emus falls on the parents' shoulders.

Li Jinheng said that raising emus is very hard, and feeding three times a day must be completed on time. Every day, emus are released from the breeding room at 6: 00 in the morning for a stroll, and are fed for the first time in the morning, and for the second time after 1: 00 noon. After 5 p.m., they will be fed for the last time of the day, and they will be rushed back to the breeding room to have a rest until the next day to repeat the previous day's feeding work. And as emus grow up, they need an astonishing amount of food. Emus alone need about 150 to 200 kilograms of water a day.

However, in order to fully support their son and let him realize his dream of becoming rich as soon as possible, Li Chin-Heng's parents worked hard and got up early and late every day to help their son feed and take care of the emu.

An egg laid by an emu can weigh up to 0.5 kg

Stick to the dream to the end

In order to meet the food needs of emus, Li Chin-Heng's parents not only planted wheat grass, sorghum grass, and alfalfa at the front and back of the house all the year round, but also discussed a vacant piece of land owned by Grandma Li Chin-Heng in the same village to plant grass seeds together. When the author arrived at Li Jinheng's home for an interview, Li Jinheng's father, Li Renyi, was riding a motorcycle to his grandmother's house to drag two large bundles of green wheat grass back.

Li Jinheng's parents told me that the main foods fed by emus are feed, grass, corn flour, bran and so on. Emus almost as high as human shoulders can eat a lot. At present, the 80 emus fed by Li Chin-Heng's family are fed two bags of special feed a day, about 500 yuan, and other fodder is about 150 kilograms. The total daily investment is equivalent to no less than 700 yuan, and the expenditure is obviously very large.

In order to reduce the burden and feeding expenses of his parents, in December 2014, Li Jinheng sold more than 30 emus and made a profit of more than 100,000 yuan, all of which were invested in the breeding of the remaining 80 emus.

Emus are getting bigger and bigger, and the expenses are also getting higher and higher. The first bucket of "gold" that Li Jinheng got from selling more than 30 emus is very little for raising the remaining 80 emus.

Today, Li Chin-Heng earns 4000 to 5000 yuan a month from outside construction sites to help feed emus. At present, Li Jinheng's parents feel somewhat inadequate for the breeding of emus. In the interview, Li Jinheng's father, Li Renyi, told me that it costs so much to breed emus, and it takes three years to breed emus. Can emu farming make money in the end? what if it runs into debt at a loss?

In response to this idea of Li Jinheng's father, the author immediately dialed Li Jinheng on the phone to understand his personal opinions and ideas.

When he got through to the phone, Li Jinheng confidently told me that although it is very difficult to finance emu farming at present, he firmly believes that emu farming will not lose money. Not long ago, when some merchants learned that he was raising emus, they took the initiative to sign a bill with him at a price of 160 yuan per kilogram. However, he does not want to sell the emu. He wants the emu to lay eggs and hatch the young emu for breeding, and then gradually sell the older emu. Only after the cultivation cycle is formed in this way, can emu culture be really bigger and stronger, and at the same time realize their dream of becoming rich in culture, at the same time, they will really drive the surrounding villagers to get rich together.